Great Offices of State State as Home Secretary. Great Offices of State The Great Offices of State in the United Kingdom are the four most senior and prestigious posts in the British government. They are the Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary and Home Secretary. According to convention, when the Prime Minister names his or her Cabinet, either after a general election or a mid-term reshuffle, the first Cabinet ministers to be announced are the Chancellor, the Foreign Secretary and the Home Secretary. James Callaghan is the only person to date to have served in all four positions. In the past hundred
Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics Great Britain, represented by the British Olympic Association (BOA), is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. British athletes have appeared in every Summer Olympic Games of the modern era, alongside Australia, France, Greece, and Switzerland, though Great Britain is the only country to have won at least one gold medal at all of them. British equestrians qualified a full squad in the team dressage and team eventing competitions by virtue of a top-six finish at the 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games in