Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon ca. 1924.© Hum Historical/Alamy Winston Churchill in 1924, giving a speech as Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer.© Hulton-Deutsch/Getty Images ...

While acting as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Churchill returned Britain to the Gold Standard, essentially using gold for money but this only brought deflation, unemployment and strikes.

He stayed in government and became Chancellor of the Exchequer. The decade of 1929-39 were considered his “wilderness years”, where Churchill was a back-bencher with little influence.

Winston Churchill was Great Britain's Prime Minister not once, but twice. Here's who he was and the pivotal role he played in both World Wars.

A crowded House of Commons gave fascinated attention, last week, to plump, ruddy-cheeked Rt. Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, shrewdly audacious Chancellor of Great Britain’s Exchequer ...

Winston Churchill (1874-1965), then Chancellor of the Exchequer in Britain, public speaking in Epping, 1924. History regularly shows that basing economic policy upon ideology, hunches, and gut ...

Winston Churchill was a 55-year-old Conservative Party politician who had been a member of parliament for three decades. He had eventually risen to the position of chancellor of the exchequer… ...

Find out the role of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in UK government, as Rachel Reeves prepares to deliver her first Budget.

With the printing presses shut down, the only sources of news are the government’s The British Gazette, edited by Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, and the independent, fledgling ...

‘Mellon vs. Churchill’ Review: The Payback Problem At the end of World War I, Britain was in heavy financial debt to the U.S. The question of repayments would bedevil both countries for decades.