Philip Hammond, Baron Hammond of Runnymede is a British politician and life peer who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2016 to 2019, Foreign Secretary from 2014 to 2016, and Defence Secretary from 2011 to 2014. A member of the Conservative Party, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Runnymede and Weybridge from 1997 to 2019.
Official portrait, 2017
Hammond meeting US Secretary of State John Kerry
Hammond meeting with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier in London, 30 November 2015
Hammond welcoming Chinese president Xi Jinping to London, 19 October 2015
Chancellor of the Exchequer
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, often abbreviated to Chancellor, is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom, and 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.
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Budget box or Gladstone box, c. 1860
Image: Bishop Walter Stapledon Exeter Cathedral
Image: William Catesby, memorial brass