Today (8th March) is budget day- keep up with the news and views \u2013 with our selection of academic resources.<\/p>\n
This will be the last spring budget<\/a> as unless the chancellor changes his mind all will be held annually in the autumn from now on. According to the House of Commons Library the longest continuous speech was by William Gladstone on 18 April 1853.\u00a0 It lasted 4 hours 45 minutes. The online version is over 33,000 words long.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n The shortest speech was in 1867<\/a> by Benjamin Disraeli\u2019s and lasted only 45 minutes.\u00a0 The Spectator <\/a>referred to it as \u2018bare and meagre\u2019 with regard to finances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today (8th March) is budget day- keep up with the news and views \u2013 with our selection of academic resources. This will be the last spring budget as unless the chancellor changes his mind all will be held annually in the autumn from now on. Read the full text papers on the UK Government website […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,13],"tags":[227,235,237,242,93],"class_list":["post-2992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-finance","category-politics","tag-budget","tag-economics","tag-finance","tag-politics","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2992"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2995,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992\/revisions\/2995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nRead the full text papers on the UK Government website
\n<\/a>The Office for Budget Responsibility<\/a> will publish an accompanying economic outlook on its website
\nThe House of Commons Library <\/a>also has a good background briefing. They also have some historic facts and figures giving a list of chancellors and lengths of speeches from 1968 onwards.<\/a><\/p>\n