The Great Offices of State are senior offices in the UK government. They are the prime minister, chancellor of the Exchequer, foreign secretary and home...
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kingdoms these offices will have common characteristics. In the United Kingdom, the Great Officers of State are traditional ministers of The Crown who...
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some of these officers later split into two counterparts in Great Officer of the State and officer of the royal household, while other offices were superseded...
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shadow holders of the Great Offices of State in the United Kingdom's Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet since Hugh Gaitskell's Shadow Cabinet of 1955. The...
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November 2023 British cabinet reshuffle (category Premiership of Rishi Sunak)
Following the appointment of Cleverly as Home Secretary and Cameron as Foreign Secretary, all four Great Offices of State are held by men for the first...
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Amber Rudd (category Secretaries of State for the Home Department)
appointed Home Secretary, thus becoming the fifth woman to hold one of the Great Offices of State, after Margaret Thatcher, Margaret Beckett, Jacqui Smith and...
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of Lublin (1569), the two offices, Chancellor (Kanclerz) and Vice-Chancellor (Podkanclerzy) were doubled (Chancellors of the Crown, for the Crown of Poland...
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head of His Majesty's Treasury. As one of the four Great Offices of State, the chancellor is a high-ranking member of the British Cabinet. Responsible for...
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James Callaghan (redirect from Lord Callaghan of Cardiff)
Callaghan is the only person to have held all four Great Offices of State, having served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1964 to 1967, Home Secretary from...
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developed a Privy Council and great offices of state. Parliament also emerged as a major legal institution, gaining an oversight of taxation and policy, but...
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Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet (United Kingdom) (redirect from Shadow Cabinet of the United Kingdom)
Official Opposition frontbench List of British shadow cabinets List of shadow holders of the Great Offices of State Cabinet of the United Kingdom "Shadow cabinet"...
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as one of the four most prestigious positions in the Cabinet – the Great Offices of State – alongside those of Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer...
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Speaker's Lectures (redirect from List of Speaker's Lectures)
instituted a new 11 lecture series on the subject of the 'Great Offices of State' (those of Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary)...
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Margaret Beckett (category British Secretaries of State)
position, and—after Margaret Thatcher—the second woman to hold one of the Great Offices of State. Following Blair's resignation as Prime Minister in 2007, Beckett...
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Secretary of State for the Colonies Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs Foreign minister Great Offices of State "Salaries of Members of His Majesty's...
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Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel (category Secretaries of State for the Home Department)
charge of the administration of the territory. Samuel was the last member of the Liberal Party to hold one of the four Great Offices of State (as Home...
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United Kingdom (redirect from United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Island)
Kingdom of Ireland to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801. Most of Ireland seceded from the UK in 1922 as the Irish Free State, and...
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United Kingdom and the head of the Home Office. The position is a Great Office of State, making the home secretary one of the most senior and influential...
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The Grand Butler of France (French: Grand bouteiller de France) was one of the great offices of state in France, existing between the Middle Ages and the...
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Michael Cockerell (category Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
and the UK Treasury, three of the UK's Great Offices of State. This was followed by the 2011 series The Secret World of Whitehall. He also made the four-part...
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Home Office (category 1782 establishments in Great Britain)
Ministry of Justice. The Cabinet minister responsible for the department is the Home Secretary, a post considered one of the Great Offices of State; it has...
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Liz Truss (redirect from Political positions of Liz Truss)
for the first time in British history, no white men held any of the Great Offices of State. Other appointments included Thérèse Coffey as deputy prime...
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Rab Butler (redirect from Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden)
being John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon) to have served in three of the four Great Offices of State but never to have been Prime Minister for which he was passed...
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Runnymede and Weybridge (UK Parliament constituency) (category Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1997)
before holding in succession two of the Great Offices of State: Foreign Secretary from 2014 to 2016, and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2016 to 2019...
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UK's foreign secretary belongs to the four Great Offices of State (along with the prime minister, chancellor of the exchequer, and home secretary). Along...
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Jack Straw (category Lord chancellors of Great Britain)
2010 under the Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He held two of the traditional Great Offices of State, as Home Secretary from 1997 to...
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unoccupied posts. The treasurer was a post of honour and several holders went on to hold great offices of state on their return to England, for example Sir...
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the American Revolution. North also held two of the other great offices of state, those of Chancellor of the Exchequer and Home Secretary. He was succeeded...
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102 Petty France (category Buildings and structures in the City of Westminster)
Debates (Hansard). House of Lords. 4 July 1972. col. 1305. Michael Cockerell (reporter) (14 February 2010). The Great Offices of State: The Dark Department...
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Ministerial ranking (redirect from Order of precedence in cabinet)
technically ranking above Raab. Orders of precedence in the United Kingdom Great Offices of State Cabinet of the United Kingdom Hennessy, Peter (2000)...
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