Budget day today - a spot of trivia
:: John Major's one and only Budget in 1990 was the first to be televised live.
:: Sir Geoffrey Howe, Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1979-1983, named his dog Budget.
:: In his 1953 Budget Chancellor RA Butler announced that the sugar ration would be increased from 10oz to 12oz a week to help the nation make celebratory cakes for the Queen's Coronation that year.
:: What some of them drank while delivering Budgets: Winston Churchill was a brandy man, while Hugh Dalton relied on milk and rum. Selwyn Lloyd supped whisky and water, while Hugh Gaitskell relied on orange juice with a dash of rum.
:: But Rab Butler, Harold Macmillan and Peter Thorneycroft, all Tories, made do with water from the tap.
:: A Chancellor delivering his Budget is the only MP allowed to take alcohol in the chamber.
:: Longest-serving chancellor was Gladstone - for more than 12 years in various terms of office between 1852 and 1882.
:: Harold Macmillan once described Budget Day as "rather like a school speech day - a bit of a bore, but there it is".
:: Sir Geoffrey Howe, Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1979-1983, named his dog Budget.
:: In his 1953 Budget Chancellor RA Butler announced that the sugar ration would be increased from 10oz to 12oz a week to help the nation make celebratory cakes for the Queen's Coronation that year.
:: What some of them drank while delivering Budgets: Winston Churchill was a brandy man, while Hugh Dalton relied on milk and rum. Selwyn Lloyd supped whisky and water, while Hugh Gaitskell relied on orange juice with a dash of rum.
:: But Rab Butler, Harold Macmillan and Peter Thorneycroft, all Tories, made do with water from the tap.
:: A Chancellor delivering his Budget is the only MP allowed to take alcohol in the chamber.
:: Longest-serving chancellor was Gladstone - for more than 12 years in various terms of office between 1852 and 1882.
:: Harold Macmillan once described Budget Day as "rather like a school speech day - a bit of a bore, but there it is".
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