Grandee in a sentence

A review by lawyer Mark Austin proposed digitising share certificates, and City grandee Sir Douglas Flint is leading a digitisation taskforce.

His comments came as Tory grandee Patrick Cormack, former chairman of the Northern Ireland Affairs select committee, said that this new Brexit deal will be the “best they will ever get”.

Tory grandee David Campbell Bannerman said he thought a new, Johnson-led party was on the cards – and the idea certainly has public support.

Tory grandee Lord Frost, one of the chief Brexiteers, has doubled down on his opinion that Scotland should have its devolution powers reversed.

He also entertained Walid Jumblatt, a Lebanese Druze grandee and former militia leader, in a closed-door meeting.

Kent political grandee Lord Michael Howard has revealed he predicted Liz Truss would be an “absolute disaster” as Prime Minister before she landed the top job.

Collette describes more: “We’d get on the Red Car at 103rd and Grandee, near the Watts Towers,” Collette writes, “and ride into Los Angeles for the half hour it took us to get there.

Prosecutor Simon Maugham recounted how on July 18, 2018, Nelson screamed down the phone at Labour grandee Dame Margaret's assistant.

Even the Sir Les Patterson lookalike Edward Leigh, a veteran Tory grandee, was getting in on the snap-happy act this week.

If this did not work the party would support the no-confidence motion, but rather than installing Corbyn, the Lib Dems would seek a cross-party government led by a backbench grandee, such as Ken Clarke or Harriet Harman.

It comes after Conservative grandee said he would be willing to lead a government of national unity to avoid a no-deal Brexit - after Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson suggested an emergency government be led by him or Labour's Harriet Harman.

Khamenei’s “Samson option” reminds one of Hermann Goring, the German Nazi grandee who boasted that whenever he faces a cultural problem he cannot understand he reaches for his gun.

Ms Swinson, who as Lib Dem leader is now in charge of a grouping of 14 MPs, suggested a temporary unity government should be led by a less divisive figure like Labour veteran Harriet Harman or Tory grandee Ken Clarke.

She suggested Tory grandee Ken Clarke and senior Labour MP Harriet Harman would be better placed than Mr Corbyn to secure a majority.

The grandee, a lifelong pro-European, said he would "experiment" with voting Lib Dem because of the Government's Brexit policy.

Unusually for a Westminster grandee, Tony Benn paid close attention to the decline of deference and growth of individualism during the decade.

Writing for the Telegraph, Tory grandee Iain Duncan Smith accused those asking for a general election of using ‘weasel words’.

Tory grandee Sir Bill Cash later asked the Prime Minister how the Chequers agreement could reconcile with the EU (Withdrawal) Act.

He was made a grandee of Spain and Commander of the Order of Santiago.

Unhappily married to King Alfonso XII's cousin, the Spanish Grandee, Francisco de Borbón, Duke of Marchena, she had unrestricted access to the Royal Palaces.