This 2009 pictured red briefcase is known as the 'budget box' or 'red box' and is a ministerial box.
This 2009 pictured red briefcase is known as the 'budget box' or 'red box' and is a ministerial box. It is used to deliver the new UK budget which tells us Brits where the government is going to spend our money. The briefcase has been used for more than 150 years, although it did have a casting change back in 2010 when the original box was starting to decay. The red budget box was first used by William Gladstone in 1860. Since then it has been used by every chancellor apart from James Callaghan and Gordon Brown. In fact all ministers have a ministerial box, the 'red box' is just the most well-known
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