Under chancellor George Osborne's latest edict, councils and housing associations will be compelled to reduce rent by 1% a year for the next four years.
In the summer of 2017, he moved to the Treasury, serving as economic secretary, or city minister, under chancellor Philip Hammond before taking on his current role in January.
The German government under Chancellor Angela Merkel may be reluctant to get involved in another Opel rescue.
This German expression, meaning pushing a new cause before finishing an old one, was pertinent under Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.
With largely middle-class support, the National Liberals hoped to make the government under Chancellor Otto von Bismarck less autocratic.
The Greens in Germany made many compromises when they joined the federal government for the first time, in 1998, under Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, a Social Democrat.
After the Socialist Party lost its absolute majority in 1983, Kreisky resigned, and the Socialists, under Chancellor Fred Sinowatz, entered into a coalition with the Freedom Party.
Under Chancellor Bruno Kreisky (1970 83), tensions between the Austrian government and the Habsburgs eased, although some family members continued to demand the restitution of the Habsburg assets.
But the German government under Chancellor Angela Merkel has cut support to the sector, a factor that is requiring the industry to become more competitive.
It has been governing in Berlin, from 1998 to 2005 under Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, since then as the junior partner in Angela Merkel's "grand coalition".
Nor has he the penchant for speaking his mind or being in the spotlight, which were traits of Karl Otto Pöhl, who led the Bundesbank under Chancellor Helmut Kohl, or Ernst Welteke, who served for a time under Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.
