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What is the Red Budget Box: Why is Sunak carrying a red briefcase?

(Image: PA Media) What is the Chancellor s red briefcase all about?  You could be forgiven for thinking the red briefcase - or box as it is known - is just a quirky style statement. In fact, the red box has a significant history behind it and is a longstanding tradition in British politics. The red box carried the Budget speech from No. 11 to the House of Commons and is often held up outside Downing Street by the Chancellor (Rishi Sunak, in this case) who will pose for many a picture. The briefcase has been used for more than 150 years with the first box made for William Gladstone in 1860. 

The Rishi reality check - Prospect Magazine

The Rishi reality check Truth-telling chancellors don’t reach the top. Sunak will want to sound responsible, while leaving it to a successor to take responsibility for higher taxes Photo: Xinhua / Alamy Stock Photo Dishy Rishi is darling of the Tory party, the glamorous counterpoint and heir apparent to Brexit Boris. No 11’s media machine excelled itself this week with an extraordinary five-minute film “The 12 months to Budget 2021” a Hollywood romance with rousing music and footage as our dashing hero, in soft focus, meets health workers and young jobseekers and shares their pain. However, chancellors usually don’t become prime minister, even though the occupant of No 11 has long been the second-most important figure in the Cabinet, taking over this role from the foreign secretary as the economy replaced Empire as the…

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