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Budget trivia

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With the Budget only weeks away we thought would share some lesser known facts from previous Budgets.

  • Out of 20 post war Chancellors only 4 have gone on to become Prime Minister. (Harold Macmillan. James Callaghan, John Major and Gordon Brown).
  • The Budget Box was first used by William Gladstone around 1860.
  • When George Ward-Hunt opened his budget box in 1869 he found that he had left his speech at home!
  • Geoffrey Howe named his dog Budget.
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