11 Downing Street
Sitting Room and Study
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Past the hallway, and across the corridor which connects the three official residences is a sitting room where the Chancellor holds occasional informal meetings. In the recent past it has also been the location for a Budget tradition – the broadcast which is the Chancellor’s direct access to the nation on the evening of the Budget Day. Nowadays the broadcasts are likely to be recorded in other parts of the house and have even, on good days, been filmed in the gardens beyond. The adjoining study is where the Chancellor of the Exchequer works on the contents of its ministerial boxes, amid further reminders of the building’s political heritage. Disraeli and Gladstone feature again, although this time as porcelain caricatures. |
