Philip Hammond

Hammond is the kind of politician I find genuinely valuable precisely because he isn't flashy. An Oxford-educated Brit from Epping, he held practically every senior brief, Transport, Defence, Foreign Secretary, and finally Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2016 to 2019. He always struck me as a numbers-and-ledgers man rather than a showman, and steady, unglamorous hands like his are what actually keep a state functioning. Holding the purse strings through the turbulence of Brexit must have been brutally stressful work. Now a life peer in the Lords, he carries the weight of someone who chose competence over theatrics, and I respect that.

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Name (English)

Philip Hammond

Name (Japanese)

フィリップ・ハモンド

Reading

ふぃりっぷ・はもんど

Born

December 4, 1955 (age 70)

Origin

Epping, United Kingdom

Occupation

politician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Goat

High school

Shenfield High School

University

University College, Oxford

• Official sitehttps://www.runnymedeweybridgeconservatives.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/phammondmp
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Hammond
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%97%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q332987

Tags

• politician

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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