Could you sit through a Budget speech lasting nearly five hours?
That’s what MPs faced on 18 April 1853, when William Ewart Gladstone delivered a marathon Budget speech lasting 4 hours and 45 minutes.
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(1/3) Entrepreneur and @HomeServeUK founder @richard_harpin says entrepreneurship should be a career path taught alongside medicine, law and accountancy.
"We need to make sure that our kids are setting up businesses on the side at school."
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(1/2) In response to a bank run that threatened the US banking system, JP Morgan and his cabal of bankers organised a relief effort on this day in 1907.
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Over the years, chancellors have had some rather unusual drinks of choice at the Budget.
Swipe to discover who drank what.
From Gordon Brown onwards, chancellors made the switch to water.
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(1/5) On this day in 1805, Britain’s mastery of the seas was assured when the Royal Navy crushed Napoleon’s fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar. 🧵👇
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