Sentences with phrase «grandee sir»
Remain - backing party grandee Sir Nicholas Soames shocked Westminster as he sensationally also sided with Boris.
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Tory grandee Sir Desmond Swayne dismissed suggestions that a second Cabinet resignation in a week would be a «catastrophe».
Many Conservative MPs plan to vote tactically to try to stop Bercow, while, if the Labour vote splits between the two candidates, a rival such as Tory grandee Sir George Young could be boosted.
Tory grandee Sir Patrick McCormack told the Commons: «The times we are living in are unprecedented» and invited Mr Martin to «dwell» on the proposition that «the condition of the House is rather like the position of the country at the time of the Norway debate» [in 1940].
For example, Tory grandee Sir Malcolm Rifkind is the cousin of... Tory grandee Leon Brittan.
Elsewhere in the documentary Tory grandee Sir Nicholas Soames describes Tory leadership contests as «loathsome», «ghastly» and «hideous».
Last week, Conservative grandee Sir Nicholas Soames subjected fellow Tory MP James Cleverly to a foul - mouthed outburst in the Westminster dining room.
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.
Tory heavyweight Ken Clarke was recorded by Sky News having a conversation with fellow party grandee Sir Malcolm Rifkind.
Not exact matches
12:19 - Father of the House Sir Peter Tapsell, the ultimate Tory grandee, is next.
Sir Peter Ricketts, the national security adviser and Foreign Office grandee, has remarked privately to the PM that he has never experienced so many international threats and geopolitical changes at one time.
Tory grandee Bernard Jenkins, chairman of the Commons public administration committee, also demanded the case be handed to Sir Alex Allan, the prime minister's independent adviser on ministers» interests.
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.
Sir Peter, the grandest of the Tory grandees, does not normally associate with Galloway's type.
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.
Perhaps because of my experiences as a British student and, knowing of the strong objections of British geophysics grandees like Sir Harold Jeffreys (not to mention Leslie Moore), I had assumed that there was a fair debate between advocates and rejectionists on both sides of the Atlantic, with the advantage on both sides given to the rejectionists until the data on the oceans turned the tide in the 1960s.