Rachel Reeves will make history as the UK’s first female Chancellor when she delivers the Labour Party's Budget today - follow live updates here
A tradition during the budget is that the Chancellor, unlike Ministers at the despatch box at any other time of the year, may drink alcohol during the Budget Speech if they wish. Former Chancellor George Osborne chose to drink mineral water. Other Chancellors have chosen mineral water , whisky , spritzer , gin and tonic , brandy and water and sherry and beaten egg , Hugh Dalton drank rum and milk while Winston Churchill drank brandy.
Rishi Sunak is teetotal, so alcohol was out of the question when he was Chancellor, and in 2022, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said that, despite speaking for a long time and, despite the difficulty of the package he would be announcing, he “sadly will not be drinking any whisky as I do so.
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