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Alice Lilly
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Senior researcher/ Learning and development manager at Institute for Government.
All things parliament and government.
PhD in modern US/UK history.
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You know I think Erskine May would actually be a great name for an amdram troupe
November 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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And m'colleagues have an excellent explainer here www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/bu...
Budgets | Institute for Government
Governments require parliament’s approval to spend money, as well as to raise revenue in the form of taxes.
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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I would say this, but the IfG's budget live blog is already great, even before we get to the main event - where else do you get this kind of content?
An IfG live blog post from Jill Rutter, titled "Keep the chancellor away from the Treasury" What will Rachel Reeves and her officials be doing in the last few hours before the budget? In earlier eras, chancellors could change their minds down to the wire (though the Red Book would be printed over the weekend) and rewrite their speech. That could mean laborious retypes and recollations. That led to an instruction in the Treasury’s own budget day manual to “Keep the chancellor away from the Treasury” after the budget had been presented to the cabinet in the morning. Chancellors would be dispatched to St James’s Park to be photographed feeding the ducks, while Treasury officials frantically compiled printed copies of the budget speech. No indication yet that this is the plan for this morning! But if you see Rachel Reeves heading into the park, you know that another bit of Treasury orthodoxy still rules.
November 26, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Chancellor and entire front bench sing songs about their constituencies while the Provisional Collection of Taxes motion is passed
November 26, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Solidarity 🫡
November 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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‘We must announce the package in one go in Parliament just hours after having unveiled the whole thing to the cabinet, apart from all the things we trailed and announced outside of Parliament ahead of it’
November 25, 2025 at 10:33 AM