continuous budget

The speech usually lasts about an hour, although the longest continuous Budget speech was by William Gladstone in 1853, lasting four hours and 45 minutes.

It usually lasts about an hour, although the longest continuous Budget speech was by William Gladstone in 1853, lasting four hours and 45 minutes.

Gladstone delivered the longest continuous budget speech in 1853 — a cool four hours and 45 minutes.

LSU President King Alexander painted what The Times-Picayune called “a stark picture of what almost a decade of continuous budget cuts have done to Louisiana’s flagship university.”

The Conservative government has gone further, targeting a £10bn surplus in both current and capital spending by 2019-2020 and aiming for a continuous budget surplus "in normal times" thereafter.