Sentences with phrase «party grandees»
Flanked by party grandees including Vince Cable and Norman Lamb, Mr Farron said journalists «have every right to ask what they see fit».
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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.
Tory heavyweight Ken Clarke was recorded by Sky News having a conversation with fellow party grandee Sir Malcolm Rifkind.
As the attacks from Labour party grandees on the leadership frontrunner continue to grow, so too does his support base.
As the Tory war continued party grandee Norman Tebbit said Mr Cameron would «probably» have to resign if he loses the referendum.
To hear many party grandees tell it, all we have to do is party like it's 1997 again.
Bridget Harris, one of four party activists who made allegations against the peer, accused Mr Clegg of being reluctant to enter a row with party grandees in the Lords.
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.
After all, why would those cynical Republican Party grandees cook up their toxic politics?
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.
«And I think with Nigel, we have to have him around,» he adds, referring to Farage as Ukip's first party grandee.
Many on the left of the party — including party grandees such as former leader Charles Kennedy — are likely to be further troubled by Clegg's message that under his leadership the party is no longer a natural home for disaffected Labour supporters.
Conservative party grandee Norman Tebbit wrote in the Daily Mirror criticising the government's health overhaul:
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».
There are many party grandees who can not see themselves outside the loop of power.
One party grandee described the speech as «frivolous».
Remain - backing party grandee Sir Nicholas Soames shocked Westminster as he sensationally also sided with Boris.
«The next Tory leader will be the person who has had the best six months before the contest,» one party grandee says.
A motion of no confidence in his performance as leader was also backed by more than three - quarters of Labour MPs, while a string of party grandees have called on him to resign.
Countless party grandees have warned members of the dangers of turning Labour into a protest movement and some talk openly of suspending the contest, coups and guerrilla tactics in desperate moves to stop Corbynmania.
Before long the Labour Party grandees will soon search for a credible, statesman - like leader whom they believe capable of delivering a victory in the polls.
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.
In the wake of explosive comments by the party grandee, the Tory backbencher dismissed «the bitter ramblings of a vengeful man».
One has to put up with a lot of nonsense to make it in politics, and sadly that often includes leering employers or party grandees.
Soundings are already being taken from his closest advisers, party grandees and from those whose success is hitched to Mr Cameron's.
Strange that the penny has not dropped yet for the Party grandees and where they have not as yet really entered the 21st century of egalitarianism.
A number of party grandees have taken to the airwaves to give Clegg their support.
He started as an outsider to the younger, and arguably more telegenic, Nick Clegg, with much less support among MPs and party grandees.