Budget 2011: A trivia special

Just how long was the longest ever Budget speech?

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We always dust this one off on Budget day, but can you remember which Chancellor took almost five hours to deliver his speech?

On 18 April 1853, the then Tory party chancellor William Gladstone (he only became a Liberal later in his career) spoke for a sanity-sapping four hours and forty five minutes. Gladstone not only...

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