Sentences with phrase «grandees who»

It contains all the rooms necessary for the grandees who inhabit the house.

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

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.»

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«Typically the big teams, who have the bigger resource, read them better, but when we had the last big regulation change in 2009 that wasn't the case, it was Brawn and ourselves who read them correctly, and the grandees, then Ferrari and McLaren, who struggled a bit.

The Tory grandee, who has served in the Commons since 1974, claimed tens of thousands of pounds for repairs to his estate, including for a tree expert to inspect around 500 specimens.

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

Another grandee to rally to the cause has been Neil Kinnock, who has accused the rightwing press of targeting Miliband because it knew he was bold and seen by the press as a threat to Tory victory hopes.

Labour grandee Alan Johnson, who chaired the Labour In campaign, laid bare his criticism of Jeremy Corbyn's «risible» performance in the fight last week.

He was the last of the «grandees» who kept Margaret on the straight and narrow.

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.

The Conservatives have come a long way since the days when flamboyant party grandee Alan Clark famously belittled Michael Heseltine as a man who «bought all his own furniture».

The Labour grandee, who served as Olympics minister between 2005 - 2010, also dismissed calls for the leadership race to be halted amid the recent surge in party membership after the general election.

But the latest comments make the Tory grandee look a lot more like modern House of Cards protagonist Frank Underwood, who ended the life of a dog.

The Liberal Democrat grandee, who spectacularly lost his Twickenham seat in May's general election to the Tory candidate Tania Mathias, will take part in the competition in November.

Lib Dem grandees, who overwhelmingly backed Kennedy, were reassured by his carefully crafted speech which promised to carry on the Ashdown legacy of cooperating with Labour, but to re-tune the links to ensure that the party has a distinctive voice at the next general election.

Such as one anonymous minister describing him as an «inept political operator in quite a crowded field» and a Tory grandee saying he was a «s ***» who deserved to be «kicked down Whitehall».

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.

If we are to win the election, we have to stop producing people who simply recycle old grandee policies and show that, like Boris, we stand up for communities we represent.

«The next Tory leader will be the person who has had the best six months before the contest,» one party grandee says.