John McDonnell was forced to take time off work. John McDonnell John Martin McDonnell (born 8 September 1951) is a British Labour Party politician who was appointed the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer in September 2015. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hayes and Harlington since the 1997 general election. He has served as chair of the Socialist Campaign Group in Parliament and the Labour Representation Committee, and was the chair of the Public Services Not Private Profit Group. He is also parliamentary convenor of the Trade Union Co-ordinating Group of eight left-wing trade unions representing over half a
The Survivors of the Chancellor The Survivors of the Chancellor The Survivors of the Chancellor: Diary of J. R. Kazallon, Passenger () is an 1875 novel written by Jules Verne about the final voyage of a British sailing ship, the "Chancellor", told from the perspective of one of its passengers (in the form of a diary). At the beginning of its voyage, the "Chancellor" carried eight passengers and twenty crew members. By the end, only eleven people (five passengers and six crew) remained alive. The crew and passengers of the "Chancellor" are at sea for four months, from September 27, 1869 to January 27, 1870.