Budget '96

Here is most of the BBC's coverage of the 1996 budget (missing the first 15 minutes). There was a last minute hitch when the entire market-sensitive budget papers were leaked to the Daily Mirror. The Treasury thought the budget might have to be given in the early morning before the markets opened - but instead the Mirror sent the papers back.

"Chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke delivers his fourth Budget, the last before the general election. David Dimbleby introduces live coverage of his speech and reaction to it.

For the first time, Peter Snow takes to the road with his computer analysis, explaining the Budget statement in detail and testing the changes on families in Dudley in the West Midlands, and Diana Madill is in Leeds to question members of the public about their views."

Transmitted 26 November 1996.