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Tuesday, 9 March, 1999, 20:18 GMT
Budget briefing
BBC News Online looks at a tradition dating back hundreds of years.
The Budget is as much a political process as an economic one.
Charlie Whelan spins it softly Gordon, Prudence and the other woman
Some 250 years of history and tradition are encapsulated in the Budget - some of it serious, some more light-hearted.
What's it all about? Questions and answers What is it like to have the eyes of the nation on you? Budget blunders - remembering past failures What was in Chancellor Lamont's briefcase?
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POLITICS OF THE BUDGET
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