Next UK Chancellor of the Exchequer in 2026?Louise Haigh
ResolvedOutcome: No$26Kas of
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This market has resolved No. Final market pricing put YES at 0%, as of .
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Louise Haigh has been appointed as First Secretary of State, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office @cabinetofficeuk.
John Healey - Chancellor • • Ed Miliband - Foreign Secretary • • Louise Haigh - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and First Secretary of State • • Shabana Mahmood - Home Secretary
Louise Haigh has been appointed as First Secretary of State, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office @cabinetofficeuk.
NEW: Shabana Mahmood stays as Home Secretary • • Staunch Burnham ally Louise Haigh becomes First Secretary of State, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and Minister for the Cabinet Office
Confirmed Louise Haigh as CDL AND First Secretary of State • • And Shabana Mahmood MP remains as Home Secretary
Louise Haigh to be appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster AND first secretary of state. • • It's the right hand man/woman position previously held by figures like George Osborne, William Hague, and John Prescott. She will be the first woman to hold the role since her political hero Barbara Castle. • • She will run a beefed up Office of the Prime Minister/Cabinet Office for Andy Burnham.
Louise Haigh on BBC Political Thinking: "I am absolutely happy to say on record that I am not going to be the Chancellor." • • Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster? "I'm not going any further on anything."
Where does the news lean?
1YES8NO0neutraltrailing 24h
Average match confidence across the listed signals: 95%.
How did this market resolve?
This market will resolve to the next individual who is officially appointed as the next Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom by December 31, 2026, 11:59 PM ET.
To count for resolution, the individual must be officially appointed by the United Kingdom Monarch. Any interim or caretaker Chancellor of the Exchequer will not count toward the resolution of this market.
If no such Chancellor of the Exchequer is appointed, or Rachel Reeves is re-appointed as Chancellor of the Exchequer, by December 31, 2026, 11:59 PM ET, this market will resolve to “No next Chancellor in 2026”.
The primary resolution source for this market will be official information from the Government of the United Kingdom; however, a consensus of credible reporting may also be used.
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