Philip Hammond

The Right Honourable The Lord Hammond of Runnymede PC
Official portrait, 2017
Chancellor of the Exchequer
In office 13 July 2016 – 24 July 2019
Prime Minister	Theresa May
Preceded by	George Osborne
Succeeded by	Sajid Javid
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
In office 15 July 2014 – 13 July 2016
Prime Minister	David Cameron
Preceded by	William Hague
Succeeded by	Boris Johnson
Secretary of State for Defence
In office 14 October 2011 – 15 July 2014
Prime Minister	David Cameron
Preceded by	Liam Fox
Succeeded by	Michael Fallon
Secretary of State for Transport
In office 11 May 2010 – 14 October 2011
Prime Minister	David Cameron
Preceded by	The Lord Adonis
Succeeded by	Justine Greening
Shadow cabinet posts Shadow Secretary of State 2005 Treasury (Chief Secretary) 2005–2007 Trade and Industry 2007–2010 Treasury (Chief Secretary)
Parliamentary offices Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal Life peerage 26 October 2020 Member of Parliament for Runnymede and Weybridge In office 1 May 1997 – 6 November 2019 Preceded by Constituency established Succeeded by Ben Spencer
Personal details
Born	(1955-12-04) 4 December 1955 (age 68) Epping, Essex, England
Political party	Conservative[a]
Other political affiliations	Independent[b]
Spouse	Susan Williams-Walker ​ ​ (m. 1991)​
Children	3
Residence(s)	Send, Surrey, England
Alma mater	University College, Oxford
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Philip Hammond's voice Hammond announces the date of the November 2017 United Kingdom budget Recorded 12 September 2017
^ Parliamentary whip suspended on 3 September 2019. Rejoined as a Conservative Lord on 30 September 2020 ^ Within parliament, from 3 September 2019.

Philip Hammond, Baron Hammond of Runnymede PC^[1][2][3] (born 4 December 1955)^[4] 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.

Born in Epping, Essex, Hammond studied Philosophy, politics and economics at University College, Oxford. He worked from 1984 as a company director at Castlemead Ltd – a healthcare and nursing company. From 1995 to 1997, he acted as an adviser to the government of Malawi before his election to Parliament.

Hammond served in the Shadow Cabinets of Michael Howard and David Cameron as Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2005 to 2007 and Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 2005 and from 2007 to 2010. After the formation of the Coalition Government in May 2010, he was appointed Secretary of State for Transport and was sworn of the Privy Council. Upon the resignation of Liam Fox over a scandal in October 2011, Hammond was promoted to replace him as Secretary of State for Defence, before being further promoted in July 2014 to become Foreign Secretary.^[5][6]

In July 2016, after Theresa May succeeded Cameron as prime minister, Hammond was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer. As chancellor, Hammond suggested that the government may begin a reduction in austerity measures.^[7] In July 2019, he spoke in an interview with Andrew Marr of his plans to tender his resignation to Theresa May should Boris Johnson become the new Leader of the Conservative Party and prime minister, on the grounds that, should he be part of the Johnson Cabinet, collective responsibility would require him to support a no-deal Brexit. With the later selection of Johnson as the next prime minister, he tendered his resignation to May.^[8] He had the Conservative whip removed in September 2019 for voting against Johnson's government and subsequently sat as an independent MP, whilst remaining a member of the party. He did not stand for re-election in the 2019 election.^[9]