Sentences with phrase «grandee lord»

Tory grandee Lord Lawson grabbed a few headlines at lunch time with a call for the chancellor to be sacked.

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.»

Tory grandee Lord Lawson grabbed a few headlines at lunch time with a call for the chancellor to be...

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.

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

A few days later Tory grandee Lord Salisbury went further, proposing that the Commons become an English parliament and the Lords become the UK house for a remnant of reserved subjects like defence and foreign affairs.

When asked once more whether he was not as concerned as Tory grandee Lord Heseltine over Johnson's remarks, he replied: «I'm not going to get into the discussions between Michael and Boris.»

Not exact matches

But another Tory grandee, Lord Heseltine, said in doing so it could lead to «civil war» within the Conservative party.

As pro-European grandees lined up to denounce Downing Street's plans to hold an in - out referendum on Britain's EU membership by 2017 regardless of whether member states accept the proposals, Lord Armstrong called on the prime minister to follow the example of Thatcher, who was a patient negotiator.

The Tory grandee's latest remarks come a week after Lord Howard — who employed Cameron as a special adviser at the Home Office in the 1990s and also supported him in the 2005 Tory leadership contest — also urged voters to back Brexit.

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

Anyone who stands in his way, from the prime minister to the Labour leader Ed Miliband and grandees in his own party such as the former leader Lord Steel of Aikwood, can expect a withering rebuke from Clegg.

Party grandees including Lord Kinnock and at least one potential challenger to Corbyn, Angela Eagle, have continued to claim that support from the party's members is ebbing away from the leader.

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.