Sentences with phrase «acting leader sir»
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Sir Menzies, the Lib Dem acting leader and foreign affairs spokesman, said he would have «no problem» with still being leader at the age of 72.
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Sir Menzies, the Lib Dem acting leader and foreign affairs spokesman, will appear on The World at One on Thursday, followed by party president Mr Hughes on Friday.
Sir Menzies, the Lib Dem foreign affairs spokesman and acting leader, is writing to Mr Blair asking him to urge the US either to put the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay on trial or release them.
Ahead of the Manchester hustings, Sir Menzies, the party's acting leader and foreign affairs spokesman, said: «I want to win power, so that we can give power away.
On Wednesday, at Prime Minister's Questions, acting leader Harriet Harman casually committed the Labour benches to supporting a third runway for Heathrow, the central recommendation of Sir Howard Davies» long - anticipated Airports Commission.
The acting Liberal Democrat leader, Sir Menzies Campbell, today tried to calm the nerves of his party reeling from the shock resignation of home affairs spokesman, Mark Oaten, and the lowest opinion poll rating in five years.
Various actors and actresses have won Academy Award acting Oscars for their tour - de-force biopic performances, such as James Cagney as George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), George C. Scott as the cantakerous WWII General Patton in the widely - acclaimed Patton (1970), Katharine Hepburn as King Henry II's Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter (1968), Sissy Spacek as legendary country singer Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), Daniel Day - Lewis as Irish cerebral palsy victim Christy Brown in My Left Foot (1989), and Ben Kingsley as the charismatic, pacifist, 20th century Indian spiritual leader Mahatma in Sir Richard Attenborough's Gandhi (1982).