Sentences with phrase «prawn cocktail offensive»
While we were campaigning for change in the banking system, they were on their prawn cocktail offensive in the City.
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He mocked Shadow Chancellor John Smith's «prawn cocktail offensive» to try to butter up City opinion («Never have so many crustaceans died in vain»).
It was 1998 when Peter Mandelson first said that Labour was «intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich», while Tony Blair went on a «prawn cocktail offensive» to get the City onside.
In Westminster, all political parties put emphasis on building up their links within the Square Mile - best exemplified perhaps by the Labour Party's prawn cocktail offensive.
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He attacked Labour's record on the economy, and spoke of a «prawn cocktail charm offensive» to win support from the City in the 1990s.