Chequers in a sentence

After he and Princess Elizabeth moved to Malta in 1949, Philip served initially as First Lieutenant on the destroyer HMS Chequers.

Following Diana’s death, Downing Street confirmed that Diana had visited Blair at Chequers with her son a few weeks before, where they discussed a special role for her as an overseas “ambassador” for Britain.

I remember the first New Year at Chequers after Dave entered Downing Street in 2010.

Lionhearth Group runs The Chequers in Churchill, The Swan in Ascott-under-Wychwood, and its newest addition is The Cock in Combe.

No 10 said Britain will send hundreds of air defence missiles and further unmanned aerial systems to the war-torn country as the Prime Minister met the president at Chequers on Monday.

The bill for the private entertainment or party business held at Chequers was footed by the former PM.

The former PM’s sister Rachel Johnson told LBC on Tuesday that “as far as I’m aware, all the rules were followed whenever I went to Chequers”.

They did so after seeing diary entries about guests who had visited Chequers during the pandemic, which Johnson handed to lawyers representing him as part of the Covid inquiry.

Access to Costco would be from Chequers Road only, and the exit would be onto Pride Park.

Sir Tim Martin, chairman of JD Wetherspoon, at The Chequers Inn in Stourbridge, pictured centre, with Dan Gardner, left, Charlotte Evans and Luke Brookes, right.

The Chequers is about as traditional as a traditional pub gets under the stewardship of Tony Matthews, with small separate rooms, huge inglenook fireplace and handpumps on the bar from a different century.

The prime minister has delayed his family summer holiday to focus on the government's response to the riots, and he is expected to work from Downing Street and Chequers for all of next week.

At one point, he asks his chief of staff if is part of Russia and, at a Chequers meeting with Theresa May, he registers surprise on hearing that the UK is a nuclear power.

Following his release from hospital he spent two weeks recovering at Chequers.

Johnson divides his time between — with access to a garden — and a country home, Chequers, with ten bedrooms and acres of parkland.

At the end of the Chequers summit which saw ministers David Davis and Boris Johnson resign over plans for Britain to adopt a “common rulebook” with the EU, champagne was served to all the officials, aides and ministers who were there.

Brady earlier said he tabled it because after he saw May’s Chequers deal was losing support it became ‘very obvious that it was going to be necessary to compromise’, but said the Northern Irish backstop was a ‘compromise too far’.

Johnson said: “But it became pretty clear to me over the months, as the Chequers proposals came out in the summer in that white paper, that we weren’t going to get a deal in the national interest.

Mr Johnson said: "If we cheat the electorate - and Chequers is a cheat - we will escalate the sense of mistrust.

Summer's suspicion was reportedly aroused when their relationship was on thin ice and Paul began frequenting the Chequers Inn in Smarden, Kent, by himself.