First Lord of the Treasury

NOUN
  1. the British cabinet minister responsible for economic strategy
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  • He explained as House met today, better not to swear me in as First Lord of the Treasury until it rose.
  • Blair could have done so whenever he wished but opted to keep this master of ‘tax, tax, tax, spend, spend, spend’ in office until his last moment as ‘First Lord of the Treasury’ and thus is implicated in the Socialist excesses of the last ten years not as a mere aider and abettor but as a principal in the first degree. Archive 2008-05-18
  • As Lord Grenville's office of auditor of the exchequer was thought incompatible with that of first lord of the treasury, and as his lordship was unwilling to resign that lucrative office, a bill was subsequently brought into parliament empowering him to name a responsible trustee for holding auditorship so long as he should continue premier. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
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