Sentences with phrase «latest grandee»
Lord Kinnock has become the latest grandee to warn against Labour limiting itself to being a party of «perpetual demonstration.»
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Soubry has become the latest member of an emerging «Tory awkward squad» after party grandee Ken Clarke and former education secretary Nicky Morgan both lamented the government's silence over Brexit.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Well, here we are nine months later, and the media grandees have gotten a little cozier with me.