Sentences with phrase «dispatch box»

Arthur would knock at the door carrying a red dispatch box.

Only yesterday a dispatch box used by Maggie Thatcher sold for # 200k plus commission at Christie's, smashing its initial timid estimate of under # 5,000.

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At the dispatch box.

When, in the first half of The Deadly Hallows, the shifty Rufus Scrimgeour, minister of magic, says: «These are dark times», he could be any member of the coalition stepping up to the dispatch box.

The next day John Hayes, the new energy minister, obfuscated at the dispatch box.

We shall see, as we will with so many other new and promoted faces at the Commons dispatch box.

The former Lib Dem leader in the Lords» comments follow candid remarks from the party chairman and defeated candidate, Simon Hughes, that Sir Menzies displayed «nervousness» at the dispatch box.

It lasted 55 minutes - forecast public borrowing will total # 149bn this year and raised VAT to 20 per cent - as Chancellor George Osborne hit the Commons dispatch box 85 times.

He is not an opponent Jeremy Hunt would enjoy facing across the Dispatch Box.

He has shown formidable assurance at the dispatch box.

The prime minister defended Osborne, saying: «The chancellor was announcing this tax reduction from the dispatch box... He was actually here making the announcement and I have to say completely wrong - footing the shadow chancellor.»

He even helped Nick Clegg out the first time he stepped up to the Dispatch Box.

Instead of the reserved, slightly bland style it has come to expect from Corbyn, the house was treated to passion and conviction at the dispatch box.

After numerous dispatch box jibes at David Cameron about the Conservatives being bank - rolled by rich individuals, it appears that Ed Miliband is now having to do the same.

In the Commons today, with his signature assertive lean on the dispatch box, he gave his utmost conviction that an in - out referendum is «not the answer,» but also that «ruling out a referendum is not the answer either.»

Fifty per cent of the current frontbench would never get near the dispatch box under normal circumstances.

Corbyn, to his credit, had attempted to create as broad a tent as possible in the shadow cabinet in order to appease party moderates, but the idea of allowing dissent within his top team unravelled the moment Hilary Benn took the dispatch box during the Syrian airstrikes debate.

Unlike Mr Corbyn, Ms Eagle is a known supporter of Trident which would mean — if she remained in post — she could embarrass Mr Corbyn by speaking in support of it from the dispatch box,

Update three: Smith sat stoney - faced as Chris Grayling, the shadow home secretary, began his response for the opposition by marking her «final appearance at the dispatch box» and congratulating her on being the first female home secretary.

«I recollect her words at the dispatch box on the [Jacques] Delors plan for Europe, which remains the policy of the commission and the European parliament.

What was that in use at the dispatch box?

If he does win tomorrow, Mr Cameron has less than 24 hours before his first major test as party leader - prime minister's questions in the Commons, where he will face Tony Blair over the dispatch box.

When the Tory leader returned to the dispatch box for his second set of questions, he focused on the climate change bill, which his party has been championing and which the government is expected to introduce in the Queen's speech next month.

William Hague will face Harriet Harman over the dispatch box in the place of Cameron and Miliband.

Greenpeace concluded Budget 2007 was a «faint hearted affair overall», criticising the lack of policy on aviation as the «elephant at the dispatch box».

What matters more, in the end, is ability, the presence of mind not to scream in fear every time you appear in front of the dispatch box, and that indefinable charisma sported by politicians such as Blair and Clinton.

Throughout Mr Osborne's blockbuster of a Budget, David Cameron sat alongside him, almost unnoticed as the Chancellor strutted in front of him at the dispatch box, all swagger and confidence and seemingly relishing the barracking and heckling from Labour MPs opposite.

«Jeremy wants to move Hilary and Maria because he knows they've got Trident coming and they don't want to be in position ever again of having two different positions at the dispatch box.

The increased burden homeowners will be expected to shoulder, alongside additional price hikes outlined in the chancellor's autumn statement, are sure to hang heavy for Davey and his team as they take to the dispatch box.

But I will covering the opening speeches, where we will see Clegg take on his Tory critics from the dispatch box.

Just hours before George Osborne stepped up to the Dispatch Box to deliver his third Budget, the Office for National Statistics provided a sobering backdrop to his statement.

This afternoon in the Commons, Cabinet Office minister Mark Harper was summoned to the Dispatch Box to answer an Urgent Question on the decision to grant the right to vote to prisoners.

I made it clear in my statement that Ministers were considering how to implement the judgment, and when decisions have been taken they will be announced to the House at the Dispatch Box in the usual way.

He used to come to the Dispatch Box and two thirds of the way through his speech he would wind Conservative Members up.

Yvette Cooper looks like safe pair of hands, exudes competence and has the poise to face David Cameron at the dispatch box.

It is true that reputations can be made and destroyed by performances at the dispatch box, not only by the Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition but by their occasional stand - ins and, occasionally, by a particularly pertinent or witty backbench intervention.

Whoever wins the race for the leadership will have just a day to get used to his new role before facing Tony Blair at the dispatch box during prime minister's questions on Wednesday.

As he stood up to the dispatch box for the first time since being elected, Mr Cameron was greeted with cheers around the Commons, before expressing enthusiastic support for Tony Blair's plans to give schools more freedoms.

Corbyn's rivals have made it clear that they can already picture him at the dispatch box.

Leaning over the dispatch box, Robertson dismissed the challenge by Labour darling and historian Tristram Hunt who said that, «only a government as incompetent as this one would scrap the post of tourism secretary after the Olympics.»

With every month that passes, his opponents have proclaimed him dead and buried and yet every week he climbs up to the dispatch box, soil and turf still clinging to his trouser legs and has another go.

Ed Balls didn't put in a particularly convincing performance at the dispatch box, but he didn't really need to.

First past the post had done its job of delivering Commons majorities for decades; the UK was more used to party leaders insulting each other from their dispatch boxes than sitting around a table thrashing out compromise.

Not exact matches

Within secondary packaging, x-ray systems are installed at the end of the line, before dispatch, to check that each box contains the correct number of primary packs.

And Nasri added a second in the 11th minute, receiving a cross from the left before dancing through the Newcastle box and dispatching an effort cooly with a stroke of his left leg.

Since it is likely Burnley will employ the same banked defensive strategy, Conte will choose players he feels can be decisive when delivering into the box and dispatching chances.

Ugbo found space in front of the Reds central defenders and advanced to the edge of the box before dispatching a neat finish into the back of the net.

She wrote: «The Mid Staffs scandal, and the problems throughout the NHS that it has exposed, have one thing in common: Lives lost in our hospitals because of an unaccountable central management and political organisation, more concerned with fixing the statistics for dispatch - box convenience than looking after patients, which has systematically stifled of the voices of those on the front line: both patients» groups concerned for loved ones, and doctors and nurses concerned for their patients.

According to the NYPD's Executive Budget Hearing Report, the additional school safety agents will be sent as «meal relief» to schools with only one safety agent; the 911 operators will be staffing the newly opened Public Safety Answering Center II in the Bronx; and the traffic enforcement agents will be primarily dispatched in Manhattan to enforce the «Block the Box» initiative, aimed at enforcing the prohibition on vehicle operators obstructing traffic at an intersection.