Budget 2024: What time will tax-raising Budget speech by Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves start on October 30?

But erstwhile should viewers and listeners tune successful for the commencement of her code successful the Commons Chamber?

The Chancellor delivers the Budget, erstwhile it’s connected a Wednesday, aft Prime Minister’s Questions.

PMQs starts astatine midday and is scheduled to past 30 minutes.

The Speaker, presently Sir Lindsay Hoyle, often allows PMQs to overrun to let much backbench MPs to enactment questions to the Prime Minister.

But normally, it finishes rather connected clip connected Budget day.

Between debates, the Speaker besides often allows a abbreviated portion for MPs to permission oregon get successful the Chamber.

However, arsenic the Commons volition beryllium afloat for PMQs, the Budget usually starts promptly.

So to beryllium safe, acceptable your Budget alarm for 12.30pm, though it could beryllium immoderate minutes later.

As for however agelong the code volition be, it could beryllium rather lengthy arsenic Ms Reeves is owed to battalion successful a ample magnitude of information.

She is expected to beryllium seeking a bundle of immoderate £40 billion, chiefly from tax cuts, arsenic good arsenic Whitehall savings, to put billions much successful Government priorities specified arsenic the NHS and infrastructure.

The Chancellor is acceptable to re-write her fiscal rules to let her to get billions much for her concern programme.

She volition again question to blasted the Tories for an alleged £22 cardinal achromatic spread successful the nationalist finances, a assertion they deny, and volition update the federation with projections by the Office for Budget Responsibility connected GDP, inflation, unemployment, yearly borrowing and the indebtedness mountain.

So, the code whitethorn good beryllium rather long.

But it is improbable to marque past as:

* The longest continuous Budget code - with the grounds held by William Gladstone connected 18 April 1853, lasting 4 hours and 45 minutes.

* The wide longest Budget code - Benjamin Disraeli’s code successful 1852 lasted 5 hours but included a break.

* The shortest Budget code - Disraeli’s 1867 Budget Speech lasted lone 45 Minutes.

* Possibly the astir disastrous, surely successful caller years - Kwasi Kwarteng’s “mini Budget” successful September 2022 which was followed by economical chaos and the illness of the Liz Truss government.

Ms Reeves besides has a agelong mode to spell to get adjacent to the highest fig of Budget speeches, a grounds chalked up by Gladstone’s twelve.