Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Stafford Cripps NPG x409

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Walter Stoneman

Lawyer and Labour politician; a nephew of Beatrice Webb, Cripps served as Solicitor-General in Ramsay Macdonald's 1930-1 government. Cripps was ambassador in Moscow (1940-2) and from 1942 a member of the War Cabinet and Minister of Aircraft Production (1942-5). It is as Chancellor of the Exchequer (1947-50) that he is best known, his policy of strict taxation and wage freezing earning him the nickname 'Austerity' Cripps.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.