 The recent chancellors, Philip Hammond, George Osborne, Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown, opted for water.In fact Darling drank what was named "Standard Water" in reference to, and support of, the London "Evening Standard" newspaper's campaign to have plain tap water available in restaurants at no charge to customers.The chancellor has a robe of office, similar to that of the Lord Chancellor (as seen in several of the portraits depicted below).