One can only imagine how long Gordon Brown would have been asleep by the time William Gladstone's Budget speech in 1853 finished.
On 18 April of that year, the then Tory party Chancellor (he only became a Liberal later in his career) spoke for a sanity-sapping four hours and forty five minutes. Gladstone not only holds the...
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