grandee
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Those files exposed a friendship between the convicted sex offender and Peter Mandelson, a Labour Party grandee and Mr. Starmer’s choice for ambassador to Washington.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
The prime minister wanted to send this Labour grandee to Washington.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
Starmer has apologized for hiring the Labour Party grandee, and Mandelson has quit the House of Lords—the British Parliament’s upper chamber—amid a police investigation into whether he shared market-sensitive information with the financier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
Then we’ll hear from City grandee Allan Leighton, who became chairman of Royal Mail in 2002.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2024
Its high, somewhat stiff collar against my neck, the wide cuffs touching my wrists, the rich material against my skin excited a sense of strangeness and distinction; I felt like some nobleman, some Spanish grandee.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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