He leaned through the open window and patted the black despatch box.

Ministers standing at the despatch box will continue to be held responsible for local decisions over which they no longer have any control.

As he says, 'A lot depends upon which side of the despatch box you rest your feet!'

"But I'm not going to stand at this despatch box and make any false promises.

He placed the despatch boxes on the library table.

The original purpose of the despatch box was for members to carry documents and other belongings with them into the chamber.

That despatch box, for instance, why was it forced?'

He cooed total infatuation for the well-proportioned figure at the despatch box.

It was an untypically uncomfortable Foreign Secretary at the despatch box yesterday.

I thought Alan Johnson looked really good at the despatch box, as shadow-chancellor, but nobody else seems to agree.

He stooped and looked into the cab of the Daimler, then pulled out the black japanned despatch box.

The most photographed despatch box in history, the iconic red box became a public record in its own right.

Brief encounter at despatch box sets Tory pulses racing Sketch.

For it was a far-from-embarrassed Mr Gummer who rose to the despatch box.

The hands that normally give the despatch box a confident caress gripped it in white-knuckled nervousness.

Dispatch box, (or despatch box), a box for holding official papers and transporting them.

Frontbench (Cabinet) members approach the table with the ornate box (pictured), known as the despatch box, to speak.

By tradition, the modern despatch boxes often contain the religious texts used for swearing in of new members of the respective chamber.

'And then she comes to us with the tale of robbery- the despatch box forced which makes not the common sense, as I told you at the time.

Carrying a despatch box under each arm, and trying to conceal hisirritation at the way in which he had been treated, Tom went through tothe library.

He sipped the cognac and raised an eyebrowas he glanced at the black-painted tin despatch boxes.

More recently, the Government despatch box is reported to have sustained damage at the hands of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

JOHN Gummer came to the despatch box to give the new guidelines for safe cooking using microwave ovens.

Clegg at the despatch box in front of a gaffawing Tory party defending Andy Coulson.

Therefore he proposes to have in Egypt railway signals, but not flags; despatch boxes, but not ballot boxes.