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The son of a celebrated former prime minister, Takeo Fukuda, Mr Fukuda has connections among Liberal Democratic Party LDPP) grandees that have become indispensable to Mr Koizumi, who is struggling to take on his party's vested interests.In this section The wild east Also with us Will the lady go?

Does it not occur to Labour grandees that this exercise is reminiscent of the McCarthyite "Have you ever supported" question?

"I love gardens, so I love the Chelsea Flower Show and I want the Fringe to complement it," he said ahead of tomorrow's launch, dispelling any fears among RHS grandees that there might be an iconoclastic rebel at their gates.

But with the Conservatives plunging below Labour in the polls this weekend and the party's split over Europe looking increasingly irreconcilable, there are growing warnings from Tory grandees that even entertaining such a course of action is deeply unwise.

He will make the announcement a year after he told City grandees that he intended to scrap the Financial Services Authority and to give the Bank of England a bigger role in policing the financial sector.

Jeremy Corbyn has been warned by Labour's leader in the European parliament and other grandees that the party will be deserted by millions of anti-Brexit voters if it fails to clearly back a second referendum in its manifesto for next month's EU elections.

In the eighteen-thirties, Disraeli, not yet even in Parliament, confided to Lord Melbourne, the Whig grandee, that he intended to become Prime Minister someday.

She is a formidable presence, immaculately presented in a green suit and jewellery to match her striking eyes on the day we meet, and so encased in her new persona of culture-sector grandee that I can't help but feel impertinent as I weigh up the questions I plan to ask about her starring role in one of the most famous political scandals of the last century.

Then as now, Fatah grandees grumbled that Mr Fayyad had been imposed by America.

Rivaldo and Ronaldo were the grandees of that Selecao, exceptional players both, but in him a special light shone.

Some Republican grandees argue that Iowa's inability to chose viable candidates risks marginalising its once-crucial kingmaker role.