Budget Day in Downing street. London, and are we down - hearted? Evidently not, for this unidentified and over enthusiastic Briton displays a Union Jack carrier-bag whilst he waits with a crowd of several hundreds to see Mr Roy Jenkins, the Chancellor of the Exchequer leave No 11 Downing Street for the House of Commons. where he was due to deliver his Budget Speech, this afternoon (Tuesday). 19 March 1968