Wednesday will see George Osborne deliver his penultimate Budget before the general election, here are eight things about past Budgets you may, or may not, know.
8 Bizarre Budget Facts
The word comes from the French "bougette", a little bag.(01 of07)
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The shortest Budget was Disraeli's in 1867: 45 minutes.(02 of07)
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The longest Budget speech was four hours 45 minutes by Gladstone in 1853.(03 of07)
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Someone here has a broken foot(04 of07)
In 2012, Treasury minister Chloe Smith had a broken foot in this picture. "I had patched it up in order to be able to stand in the photograph," she told HuffPost recently in parliament. "I'd broken it in here running to a vote." (credit:PA)
This box had nothing but whisky in it(05 of07)
When Norman Lamont was Chancellor in the early 1990s, the bag which was waved at photographers outside No 11 contained a bottle of whisky, while the speech itself was carried in a plastic bag by his then aide, William Hague. "It would have been a major disaster if the bag had fallen open," Hague said later. (credit:PA)
John Major's Budget in 1990 was the first to be televised live.(06 of07)
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Sir Geoffrey Howe named his dog Budget.(07 of07)
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