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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19066, 30 July 1927, Page 13

Mr Churchill's Budget, it has been pointed out, was more than nsiml'v prolific of humour; and it also had a stimulating effect upon the subeditors. Hero are a few of the phrases they have found for it: Ingenious Budget.—"The Times." Economy Budget.— "Morning Post." Budget of Many Intentions.— "Dally Chronicle." Trick Budget.— "Westminster Gazette." Audacious Budget.— "Daily News." Budget, of Windfalls.—"Manchester Guardian." Conjuror's Budget.— "Evening News." ' 'Bits-and-Pieces" Budget. — "Star."' The "Express" takes the whole width of the page to call it "a raiding, diehard, Protectionist Budget" : hut Lord Beaverbrook has a constitutional dislike both to contrivances and to windfalls. According to "Observator," of the I lon "Observer," there is a sequel to a well-known political story: — "All the papers have told the story of how the late Duke of Leeds, standing as a very youthful candidate for Brixton, was asked by a man in the audience: 'Does your mother know you're out?' and replied: 'Yes; and by to-morrow she'll know I'm in.' But they do not give the sequel; whiVu is that the retort was arranged beforehand, and that the heckler was the family butler. So were elections won, even in the 'eighties."