dispatch box
Britishnoun
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On 19 April, Boris Johnson was asked in Parliament: "Did you deliberately mislead the House at the dispatch box?"
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2022
On Sunday, Buckingham Palace released a photo of the monarch sitting in front of her official red dispatch box with government papers spread out before her.
From Washington Times • Feb. 6, 2022
"The public have a right to expect what is said by the prime minister at the dispatch box to be truthful and accurate," he said.
From BBC • Feb. 3, 2022
And prior to the pandemic, the then Labour MP Tracy Brabin - who is now Mayor of West Yorkshire - attracted attention when her dress slipped off her shoulder at the dispatch box.
From BBC • Sep. 4, 2021
The London newspapers then reported that a dispatch box, belonging to Count Bernstorff, and containing documents of the German Embassy, had been opened there.
From My Three Years in America by Bernstorff, Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von
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