Quotes

It ain't just what you do, it's the way that you do it. This Bill puts the right conditions in place to allow British business to flourish.

David Gauke 05/07/2011

David Gauke MP, quoting Bananarama, on the passage of the Finance Bill (No. 3)

Category: Budgets

Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.

Ronald Reagan 01/1980

Category: Budgets, Public Spending

Tags: Budgets, Economics, Public Spending, Ronald Reagan

Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of bottomless deficiency fishing for a budget?

Robert Peel 1841

On the 1841 budget

Category: Budgets

Tags: Budgets, Economics, Robert Peel

It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.

Clement Attlee 29/10/1945

Category: Budgets

Tags: Budgets, Clement Attlee, Economics

I believe the Chancellor is battering Britain.

Neil Kinnock 13/03/1984

In response to Nigel Lawson's announcement that fish & chips would be VATable.

Category: Budgets

Tags: Budgets, Economics, Neil Kinnock

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Traditionally Tory leaders were said to 'emerge'. That is to say, the succession was rigged by a small section of the party, usually with Cabinet inspiration.

Sir Gerald Nabarro

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