A despatch box (alternatively dispatch box) is one of several types of boxes used in government business. Despatch boxes primarily include both those sometimes...
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Red boxes, or sometimes ministerial boxes, are a type of despatch box produced by Barrow Hepburn & Gale or Wickwar & Co and are used by ministers in the...
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Despatch Box is a late night political analysis television programme produced by the BBC. It was broadcast on BBC Two between 20 October 1998 and 20 December...
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table with the ornate box (pictured), known as the despatch box, to speak. The despatch boxes are a replica of the same boxes used by the UK House of...
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Barrow Hepburn & Gale (section Despatch boxes)
luxury leather goods manufacturer best known as the producer of the despatch boxes used by the Government of the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1760...
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the first female Muslim minister to speak from the House of Commons despatch box. From 2018 to 2020, Ghani was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State...
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Casual vacancy Caucus revolt Chardonnay socialist Contempt of parliament Despatch box Donkey vote Dorothy Dixer Double dissolution Faceless men Forgotten People...
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walnut". The despatch boxes of the British House of Commons are made of pūriri wood. They were a gift from New Zealand to replace the previous boxes after the...
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Chancellor of the Exchequer (section Budget box)
red despatch box. The so-called 'Budget Box' is identical to the cases used by all other government ministers (known as ministerial boxes or "despatch boxes")...
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line on Rhodesia, voting against any sanctions. His presentation at the despatch box was strident for the times; he was censured by the Speaker for calling...
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Casual vacancy Caucus revolt Chardonnay socialist Contempt of parliament Despatch box Donkey vote Dorothy Dixer Double dissolution Faceless men Forgotten People...
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Minister's Questions. He courted controversy during the exchange when at the despatch box he attacked Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and Shadow Lord Chancellor...
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Frontbench and despatch box...
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not be confused with the attaché case-styled red box (also called a despatch box or ministerial box) which is issued to British Cabinet ministers to carry...
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House of Commons on 4 February 1932. He had with him his father's old despatch box from when he was Secretary of State for the Colonies and his father's...
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Casual vacancy Caucus revolt Chardonnay socialist Contempt of parliament Despatch box Donkey vote Dorothy Dixer Double dissolution Faceless men Forgotten People...
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Revolutionary Wars. It shows the Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger at the despatch box engaged in debate. A large number of other political figures of the era...
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and the leader of the opposition, who speak opposite each other at the despatch box. Regular, fixed sessions have taken place since 1961, and the list below...
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from football, he hosted the BBC Two political late-night programme Despatch Box in the late 1990s/early 2000s. Appearances in European Cup Winners' Cup...
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a major review of BBC political programmes. It replaced the nightly Despatch Box (1998–2002), for which Neil had been the sole presenter in its later...
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listening to the question and then to rise to give an answer from the despatch box, thus standing up and sitting down numerous times in quick succession...
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Contents of Lord Harlech's house at Glyn Cywarch, including his government despatch box containing drafts from him and numerous letters from Jackie Kennedy illustrating...
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on Sunday. Richards presented GMTV's The Sunday Programme, BBC Two's Despatch Box and BBC Radio 4's Week in Westminster. In early 2017, he presented a...
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constituteproject.org. Media related to Governors-General at Wikimedia Commons WorldStatesmen National Museum of Australia Governor-General's despatch box (1937–1952)...
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Adjournment"), informal cafeteria ("The Debate") and a coffee shop ("The Despatch Box"), available only to pass holders and their guests. There is also a post...
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the 1990s, Neil fronted political programmes for the BBC, including Despatch Box on BBC Two. Following the revamp of the BBC's political programming in...
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House of Commons. He is in a small group of non-MPs to speaks at the despatch box in the House of Commons when he delivered a speech in 2023. The sitting...
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Breakfast with Frost Brexitcast Click Daily/Sunday Politics Dateline London Despatch Box E24 Fast Track The Film Review Global GMT HARDtalk The Hub Impact In...
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programmes such as The World at One, Westminster Live, Straight Talk, Despatch Box and The World This Weekend. He covered the collapse of communism in Romania...
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taken the oath, MPs come forward one by one to swear or affirm at the despatch-box, in order of seniority: Father of the House (longest continuously serving...
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