10 things you didn't know about the budget box
10 things you didn't know about the budget box"
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1. The box was made in 1860 for Chancellor William Gladstone, who held the post of Chancellor of the Exchequer four times. 2. Gladstone was originally a Conservative MP before becoming a
Liberal Prime Minister, so perhaps it is appropriate that its final use should be by a Conservative-Lib Dem coalition. 3. The box has been used by 44 different chancellors in its lifetime.
4. James Callaghan and Gordon Brown are the only two chancellors not to use the original box. 5. According to William Hague, Chancellor Norman Lamont once kept a bottle of Highland Park
whisky in the box. 6. The box is lined with black satin and covered in scarlet-stained ram’s leather. 7. The custom of holding the box aloft for a photo began with Hugh Dalton, the
Chancellor in 1947. 8. In 1868, Chancellor George Ward-Hunt opened the box to find that he had left his speech at home. 9. Locks on ministerial boxes are on the bottom to ensure they are
locked before being carried. 10. The box will now spend its retirement on display at the Cabinet War Rooms in Whitehall.
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