Unsurprisingly, the Budget statements are typically very long. To date, the longest Budget speech was that of Gladstone in 1853, coming in at a whopping 4 hours and 45 minutes. The shortest was Benjamin Disraeli's budget speech in 1867 which lasted just 45 minutes. (7/10)

I have also seen working-class people become disenfranchised from education due to high costs and lack of opportunities

I have much more recent experience, having been to secondary school in the 2010s. I can confidently say that I have not experienced working-class people looking down on education. I have experienced working-class people being told by middle-class people that university is not for them

This feels like quite an offensive take. I grew up on a council estate, and I'm the first in my family to go on to FE, never mind HE. To group people who don't go to university as 'anti-learning' is really harmful. My grandad would have loved the opportunity to go to university.