Sentences with phrase «grandees from»

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

Some senior Labour MPs believe that respected grandees from the Miliband era and the party's «soft left» must come out against a Corbyn victory to prevent the worst happening.

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Kalin has poached executives from the likes of Yahoo, Google, and eBay, and he has been honored as a «Technology Pioneer» by the grandees at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos.

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In each, he cultivated minds and local grandees with perhaps a delicate touch of insouciant espionage thrown in, as in his probable role when press attaché in Sofia of trying to persuade King Boris of Bulgaria, an acquaintance from a decade earlier, to side with the Allies early in the Second World War.

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.

Labour grandees go to Tuscany, Tories go to... Many of them, I can now disclose, go to The Gers, in the Midi - Pyrénées, a 90 - minute car journey west from Toulouse.

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

There was immediate excitement in the corridor as almost every waiting journalist followed the master of the dark arts awkwardly down the corridor, eager for an anti-Corbyn quote from a euphemistically titled «Labour grandee» or «senior Labour figure».

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

He easily eclipsed Ken Clarke, the Tory grandee who had turned up to lend his support, suggesting that the Tory leader's big tent approach to candidate selection — particularly in a constituency where 62 per cent of voters are from ethnic minorities — may pay dividends.»

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.

Responding to criticism from Labour MP Kate Hoey, the Eton - educated Tory grandee added: «I met him purely and entirely in a personal capacity - there was no - one present, it was just him and me.

Then, to the South West progressive grandees, flashing their Awo franchise as Geoffery Chaucer's Pardoner would, in Canterbury Tales, flash his papal pardon, hot, fresh and smoking from Rome, it was additional gall, that a certain Bola Ahmed Tinubu, midwifed the Buhari coalition!

But none of that put off Tory grandee Nicholas Soames from meeting up with the president of Zimbabwe last week.

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.

Predictable mayhem ensued, from which a handful of party grandees advised the Queen to call for the foreign secretary, Douglas - Home (a 14th earl at the time) instead of the assumed favourite, Rab Butler.

Signs that other grandees are rallying follow calls from members of the 2010 intake for the party to stop its infighting, cast off self - doubt and get behind their leader.

Standing up for the airport user, I suspect in the face of disquiet from certain grandees.

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.

The drawing room was full of Washington grandees, some elected; some born in place, like Alice Roosevelt Longworth, wearing for once the wrong blue; some newly arrived from abroad now that England and France were at war with Germany.