Red box (government)
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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 British government and the British monarch to c
A pair of despatch boxes
Budget box of William Gladstone, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer four times between 1852 and 1882
Box used by Queen Victoria to communicate with Benjamin Disraeli
Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, holding the budget box to announce the 2024 autumn budget
Rachel Reeves
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Rachel Jane Reeves is a British politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2024 to 2026. A member of the Labour Party, she has been Member of Parliament for Leeds West and Pudsey, forme
Red box (government)
…in 2021 by Aldridge's cost £1,100 (equivalent to £1,362 in 2025). Between 2002 and 2007, the British government spent £57,260 on new boxes. Budget box Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, holding the budget box to announce the 2024 autumn budget There is a custom of the Chancellor of the Exchequer holding…
Official portrait, 2024
Reeves in 2012
Official MP portrait, 2017
Reeves appointed as Chancellor of the Exchequer by Keir Starmer, 5 July 2024