Sentences with word «grandee»

The latest threat to Mr Bercow comes from the unlikely figure of Tory grandee Sir Peter Bottomley, one of the MPs who dragged him to the Chair in the old - fashioned ritual when he was re-elected last June.

The 33 - year - old, a former Labour special adviser, last week kicked off his six - part television series Unspun on Dave with Labour grandee Alan Johnson his first guest.

As the attacks from Labour party grandees on the leadership frontrunner continue to grow, so too does his support base.

Into the risk - averse worlds of corporate lawyers and bankers in the 1970s came a new generation of raiders, a mogul horde the likes of which had not been seen since the days when Jay Gould and other grandees of greed held sway.

Elsewhere in the documentary Tory grandee Sir Nicholas Soames describes Tory leadership contests as «loathsome», «ghastly» and «hideous».

Lib Dem grandee Lord Oakeshott said: «Vicky must have been under a lot of pressure, but I am sure she never raised the points with me.»

The Conservative grandee said that the plan proposed by communities secretary Sajid Javid was «a good idea» - but only if the best wordsmiths were on the case.

Egalitarianism is rampant in the affectionate fulsome tribute by grandee Nicholas Soames to Gladys Dickson, who reigns supreme in the Members» Tea Room.

Party grandee Lord Tebbit told BBC News yesterday that although disapproval was to be expected, he believed transgressions made while still a teenager should not prevent politicians from achieving high office.

Writing in the Daily Telegraph the pro-Brexit Tory grandees said: «There has been startling dishonesty in the economic debate, with a woeful failure on the part of the Bank of England, the Treasury and other official sources to present a fair and balanced analysis.

There are many party grandees who can not see themselves outside the loop of power.

The result - on a turnout of 77.6 % - was announced to a hall packed with Labour grandees at the party conference in Liverpool

To be charitable, it's possible Sir Muir Russell, Lord Oxburgh and the other grandees assumed that, having been caught once, the Warmanos wouldn't do it again.

Hence the shameless public — and, in some cases — private wooing of Clegg by Labour grandees from Gordon Brown downwards.

Her intervention comes after Tory grandee Ken Clarke gave a withering assessment of the Prime Minister's administration, arguing she leads a «government with no policies».

Six months after trying and failing to be elected chancellor of Manchester University, former New Labour grandee Peter Mandelson has received something of a consolation prize, taking the same job at the city's newer academic institution.

To hear many party grandees tell it, all we have to do is party like it's 1997 again.

Flanked by party grandees including Vince Cable and Norman Lamb, Mr Farron said journalists «have every right to ask what they see fit».

Bridget Harris, one of four party activists who made allegations against the peer, accused Mr Clegg of being reluctant to enter a row with party grandees in the Lords.

McCluskey, a prominent supporter of Corbyn, said the leader had been the victim of a «political lynching» and said it was «outrageous» that political grandees such as Kinnock were being dragged out to be part of this «unedifying coup».

But GOP grandees now suspect that religion is an electoral liability, or at least will become one if the religious right isn't put on a short leash.

Liberal Democrat grandee Lord Ashdown recently mooted such action, calling for moderates from across various centre - left parties to have a «conversation».

There has been much huffing and puffing through the afternoon from Tory grandees such as Patrick Cormack, Richard Shepherd, Bill Cash and John Gummer, complaining bitterly that the attempt to introduce a referendum on AV is simply a gimmick.

But what is being put forward is a scheme to allow for recall only when Westminster grandees judge an MP guilty of wrongdoing.

After Osborne's big squeeze on welfare in the Autumn statement, Lib Dem grandees like Sir Menzies Campbell have been signalling they will not put up with any more.

It's good to know climate grandees at least appreciate good radio entertainment.

Even Labour grandee George Foulkes has given Nicola Sturgeon, the current first minister, his backing to negotiate directly with the EU regarding its future relations with Scotland.

From Southern Baptist boycotts of Disney and theonomic tub - thumpers screaming blue murder from crackpot websites to Roman Catholic grandees assuming that their academic achievements require that the world take them seriously, Christians have proved adept at the ways and means of worldly «political politics.»

The executive director of the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign and son of Labour grandee Jack Straw had suggested that European Union citizens living in the UK could be sent back to the country they were born in should Britain vote to leave on June 23.

Speaking on the BBC's This Week programme, Conservative grandee Michael Portillo said that May wanted «an entirely controlled situation in which she didn't use her humanity».

A few days ago, the vehemently eurosceptic Tory grandee Bill Cash suggested that Cameron should ``...

Conservative party grandee Norman Tebbit wrote in the Daily Mirror criticising the government's health overhaul:

And the Remain campaign can wheel out an inexhaustible supply of political, business and media grandees to say so.

It will always be outnumbered by Remain, if only because so many grandees derive power or income or profit from the status quo — or even direct subsidy from the EU.

Instead the long - serving grandee turned his fire on the police for allowing the appalling security breach that saw prankster Simon Brodkin storm the stage to hand the PM a P45 form.

You will recall that there were the interventions by the Labour grandees just before the by - elections.

Lord Kinnock has become the latest grandee to warn against Labour limiting itself to being a party of «perpetual demonstration.»

Even grandees lose out.

We will read and discuss inspiring essays by artists and critics, such as the great film editor Walter Murch, cultural critic Camille Paglia, the novelists James Baldwin and Tom Wolfe, and art grandee Dave Hickey, along with the crackling prose of artist - eccentrics such as William Blake, Vincent van Gogh and Andy Warhol.

After all, why would those cynical Republican Party grandees cook up their toxic politics?

Often the new grandees portray themselves as rebels against the old notion that law is not a business.

Yale's Brahmin president, Kingman Brewster, and other grandees recognized that the legitimacy of America's ruling class was in peril.

Kings and other political grandees provided for their illegitimate sons by having them appointed bishops, and bishops obtained offices, either clerical or secular, for their illegitimate male progeny.

In New York, hipsters and breeders and grandees socialize on separate tracks.

Blatter last month was banned football for eight years for misconduct in office and the shadow of a scandal - scarred year hung over an event with UEFA president Michel Platini also absent through suspension as well as various other long - serving FIFA grandees either on bail or wanted in the United States.

A fixture at the top of the lobbying business for the last 20 years, and one of the most respected people in it, Warwick Smith has become a lobbying grandee.

Labour really has declared war on Murdoch when a real New Labour grandee joins the attack.