Sentence examples for from the despatch from inspiring English sources

At times, as the rhetoric was machine-gunned from the despatch box, he sounded as if he was gloating.

She insisted it would be "immensely helpful" if ministers could use maps and graphs to explain their points when making statements to MPs from the despatch box.

After a brilliant debut from the despatch box, he lost his surefootedness in the Whitehall jungle and became bogged down in technical arguments with the Treasury.

Alexander, who has been an MP since 2010, had never spoken from the despatch box when she was appointed to the health post in Corbyn's shadow cabinet, and says the job made her feel excited and liberated.

The tightly-worded letter explains that eurosceptic ministers will be barred from supporting Brexit from the Despatch Box in the House of Commons chamber but hinted that they would be allowed to speak out against the Government's official position from the backbenches.

But the centrepiece of the reform is a proposed overhaul of the oldest, and one of the oddest, VAT systems in the world.In a relatively centralised country such as Britain, the finance minister can lift or impose taxes with a single edict from the despatch box.

One of the moments that defined John Major as a dead man walking to defeat came in January 1997, when Tony Blair taunted him from across the despatch box as "weak, weak, weak, weak".

However, the 1804 fleet had no escort: the outbreak of war had delayed the despatch of the vessels from Rainier's squadron.

Lord McNally, the deputy leader of the Lords, responded: "I do not think that it is appropriate from this despatch box to comment on individual cases, some of which are before the courts".

In July 1940 he and the rest of his Italian colleagues were removed from the Savoy and despatched to the winter quarters of the Bertram Mills circus in Berkshire, freshly refitted as an internment camp with Bren guns and a double girdle of barbed wire.

Jean Evans, the woman who opened the letter bomb, was taken to hospital with minor injuries and a bomb disposal team from the British Army was despatched to the scene.