Attlee Ministry (Wiltshire)

The Rau Ministry was formed on 10 August 3024 following the CD/R victory in the 3024 general election. Jeffrey Anton "Jan" Rau was appointed Prime Minister after a negotiation between the sister parties of the CD/R Union, as the election results put both parties neck-and-neck in terms of seats in the National Assembly. Rau proceeded to appoint a full cabinet of CD/R ministers with the political authority to conduct a number of key domestic reforms in light of the devastation caused by the Wiltshire Civil War.

Rau became Prime Minister, with the sister party leaders each taking senior government positions: Lassiter was named Assembly Leader and First Minister of State, while Lipsey became Deputy Prime Minister and Minister responsible for the Constitution.

First Rau Cabinet

Rau Ministry
Responsible minister	Portfolio
Jan Rau ⚫ since 10 August 3024	Prime Minister of Wiltshire
Halpert Lipsey 🔵 since 10 August 3024	Deputy Prime Minister of Wiltshire Federal Minister for the Constitution
Owen Lassiter 🟣 since 10 August 3024	First Minister of State Leader of the National Assembly
Lucy Burgers 🟣 since 10 August 3024	Chancellor of the Exchequer Federal Minister for Finance
Peter Panuelo 🟣 since 10 August 3024	Federal Minister for Foreign & Crown Affairs
Madeline Ross 🔵 since 10 August 3024	Federal Minister for Home Affairs
Rufus Kaine 🟣 since 10 August 3024	Federal Minister for the Communities Local Government Coordinator
Christopher Konty 🔵 since 10 August 3024	Federal Minister for Science, Technology, & Education
Grant Katzenmoyer 🔵 since 10 August 3024	Federal Minister for Trade & Transportation
Mackenzie McQuaid 🟣 since 10 August 3024	Federal Minister for Health & Social Affairs
Ray Banes 🔵 since 10 August 3024	Federal Minister for Economy, Investment, & Reconstruction
Kiki Thasmin 🟣 since 10 August 3024	Federal Minister for Food & Land Management
Gus Nixon ⚫ since 10 August 3024	Terrace Street Chief of Staff Federal Minister for the Cabinet Office
Kirk Ashland 🔵 since 10 August 3024	Chief Secretary to the Treasury Federal Minister without Portfolio
Markus Horst ⚪ since 22 December 3022	Attorney General of Wiltshire Federal Minister for Justice

Key
⚪ = Independent
🔵 = Republican
🟣 = Conservative Democrat

⚫ = Union (neutral)

The Debt Brake

On the first day of the new government, Prime Minister Jan Rau and Chancellor Lucy Burgers announced that they would be triggering the 'debt brake', which is a law that was passed in 3011 by Wiltshire's founding father, Jaresh Inyo. The debt brake was designed as a mechanism that would limit the Wiltshirian national government to fiscal spending that was matched by proper revenues. The result of the mechanism would be to prohibit peace team governments from borrowing money and creating budget deficits.

The law was designed to be triggered once "the investment required to construct a prosperous settlement" had been completed. However, successive Prime Ministers refused to trigger the debt brake, until eventually the law was mostly forgotten.

Rau's announcement was seen as a pitch to the international corporate community, suggesting that he would be the safe pair of hands that would deliver economic stability for the first time in years. When the Union won the election subsequently, Rau appointed Lucy Burgers - the only Chancellor ever to deliver a balanced budget - to the position of Chancellor once again: a further signal that he intended to avoid deficit spending.

When Burgers unveiled the government's new budget in September 3024, it was a balanced one under the provisions of the debt brake.