‘Noisy’ Top Gear interrupted my budget: George Osborne

The UK’s chancellor George Osborne has scolded car-show Top Gear’s Chris Evans for making a racket near Downing Street and for distracting him from writing the national budget.

The chancellor said a “noisy episode” of the BBC Two show was being filmed in central London on Sunday. He tweeted: “Trying to write my Budget, despite noisy episode of @BBC_TopGear being filmed outside on Horseguards Parade. Keep it down please @achrisevans.”

Trying to write my Budget,despite noisy episode of @BBC_TopGear being filmed outside on Horseguards Parade. Keep it down please @achrisevans

— George Osborne (@George_Osborne) March 13, 2016

The budget is due to be delivered on Wednesday.

On Saturday, Top Gear host, Matt LeBlanc, and rally driver, Ken Block, surprised a bride and groom at St Paul’s Cathedral, by motoring past, with the former Friends star sticking his arm out of the car window to wave.

The new series is due to start in May. The line-up includes LeBlanc, Evans, The Stig, Formula 1’s Eddie Jordan, German racing driver Sabine Schmitz, journalist Chris Harris, and car-reviewer Rory Reid.