Brown beats Lloyd-George

13 April 2012

Gordon Brown has become the longest continuously serving Chancellor of the Exchequer for more than 180 years.

He has surpassed Lloyd-George's 2,600 days in the post. The chancellor exceeded Gladstone's 2,566 days' continuous service some time ago, although Gladstone also served as Chancellor on other separate occasions.

Mr Brown still has a considerable way to go to beat the record of Nicholas Vansittart (later Lord Bexley) who served as Chancellor continuously from 1812 to 1823.

Vansittart's precise statistics are unclear, but he is believed to have been Chancellor for around 4,015 days. This would mean that Mr Brown would have to serve almost another four years to overtake him.

Throughout his Chancellorship, Mr Brown has never betrayed any outward sign of the anger many people believe he still feels about the way he was treated during the period of the Labour leadership election in 1994 after the death of John Smith.

Some of his supporters still claim he was cheated out of the leadership, but others blame him for so easily surrendering to those who were backing Tony Blair.

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