In 1947, Labour chancellor Hugh Dalton resigned after some important, market-sensitive details of his Budget speech that he had let slip to a journalist appeared in print shortly before he stood up in the Commons. Perhaps the writer for the Star, an evening paper, was irritated by Dalton’s plans to put “a penny on beer” and “something on dogs
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Nov 24, 2023
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