Hello, it's been nearly budget day for, well, a lot of days, but it finally is budget day today.
And what you're going to hear now is a live episode of Newscast that was broadcast on the news channel and on loads of different social media platforms on Thursday evening at about 6.40,
where me and Chris and the rest of the gang got together to discuss what was actually in Rachel Reeves' very,
very long anticipated budget.
Hello, it's Adam in the Newscast studio and it is Chris at Westminster.
And because nothing goes to plan, more on that later on budget day,
the other half of the newscast crew are actually not here yet.
So we will be joined by Darshini David,
deputy economic editor here at the BBC and Ben Chu from BBC Verify at some point.
So if you see them stumbling in or tripping over a cable or clearing their throats or downing a cup of tea,
that is what's happening.
They're not here yet.
Now, Chris, that's people who are being late on budget day.
But actually, the big thing before budget day was somebody being early, the officer budget...
responsibility being spectacularly early.
It is unbelievable it starts to the sort of budget day
because the thing is with with budget day for newscasters who may have you know Cass and I in the direction of budget day over the years there's there's a choreography there is a predictability and it usually begins at around about 11 11 15 in the morning when the chancellor and her team of treasury ministers come out onto the steps of number 11 Downing Street and they hold up the red box that and not to a moment in history rather a while ago where a Chancellor managed to get to the dispatch box to the House of Commons without actually the copy of the speech they were going to read out so it became a thing that you hold up the red box to prove that you've not forgotten it.
Anyway,
so she was doing all of that and then you're going to the House of Commons and then there's Prime Minister's Questions which is a bit of a sideshow on Budget Day and then at about half 12 the Chancellor stands up and delivers the budget for about an hour and usually even
if plenty of it like this year has been briefed or leaked.