The first photograph of the new British national cabinet . Left to right , sitting : Mr Philip Snowden , chancellor of the exchequer ; Mr Stanley Baldwin , lord president of the council ; Mr Ramsey MacDonald , the premier ; Sir Herbert Samuel , home secretary , and Lord Sankey , lord chancellor . Left to right , standing : Sir P Cunliffe Lister , president of the board of trade ; Mr J H Thomas , secretary for the dominions ; Lord Reading , foreign secretary ; Mr Neville Chamberlain , minister of health , and Sir Samuel Hoare , secretary for India . 2 September 1931