"You had an option, sir" (sometimes remembered as You had a choice, sir) was a phrase used by Brian Mulroney against John Turner during the English-language...

only reply that "I had no option" except to let the appointments stand. Mulroney famously responded: You had an option, sir. You could have said, 'I...

Turner replied that, "I had no option" except to let the appointments stand. Mulroney famously responded: You had an option, sir. You could have said, 'I...

campaign coverage has had few noteworthy campaign moments, but much like the 1984 Mulroney Turner debate ("You had an option, sir"), this advertising mistake...

claimed that "I had no option" but to let the appointments stand, prompting Mulroney to tell him, "You had an option, sir–to say 'no'–and you chose to say...

Turner claimed that "I had no option" except to let them stand. Mulroney responded, "You had an option, sir – to say 'no' – and you chose to say 'yes' to...

price.' You had an option, sir — to say 'no' — and you chose to say 'yes' to the old attitudes and the old stories of the Liberal Party. That sir, if I...

claimed that "I had no option" but to let the appointments stand, prompting Mulroney to tell him, "You had an option, sir–to say 'no'–and you chose to say...

Sir Keir Rodney Starmer KCB KC (/ˈkɪər/ KEER; born 2 September 1962) is a British politician who has served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since...

vegetarians until they were 10 years old, at which point they were given the option of eating meat. Until moving to 10 Downing Street, the family resided in...

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton CVO OBE FRGS FRSGS (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions...

Sir Alexander Chapman Ferguson CBE (born 31 December 1941) is a Scottish former football manager and player, best known for managing Manchester United...

Episodes for the British television sitcom Are You Being Served? aired from 1972 to 1985. All episodes were 30 minutes long. A film of the same name was...

magistrate no option but to find Cass not guilty. But he added the following warning: Just take my advice: if you are a respectable girl, as you say you are, don’t...

announced that he had asked the King to call a general election for 4 July 2024, surprising his own MPs. Though Sunak had the option to wait until December...

second option had 333 cars, there would 88 cars in 22 sets of four cars each, and 245 cars in 49 sets of five cars each. If the second option had 437 cars...

Hoare–Laval Pact was an initially secret pact made in December of 1935 between French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval and British Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare...

tell you to this day, but I once got engaged to [Sir Roderick Glossop's] daughter, Honoria, a ghastly dynamic exhibit who read Nietzsche and had a laugh...

Sir Jean de Carrouges IV (c. 1330s – 25 September 1396) was a French knight who governed estates in Normandy as a vassal of Count Pierre d'Alençon and...

A bust of Sir John Gordon was sculptured by Edmé Bouchardon in 1728. The bust was bought by the town council of Invergordon in 1930 for £5. It was subsequently...

observes an impromptu witch trial. He recruits Sir Bedevere the Wise, Sir Lancelot the Brave, Sir Galahad the Pure, Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir-Lancelot...

resemble his siblings, but his father Sir William attributed this to his being "a Grey, not an Eden". Eden had an elder brother, John, who was killed in...

2005 London bombings, asked for an end to the criticism of Sir Ian Blair over the Menezes shooting, which she felt had moved the media focus away from...

J. H. C. Morris suggested that Bertie and Sir Roderick had an undisclosed quarrel sometime after Thank You, Jeeves and before Jeeves in the Offing, implying...

joined Royal Bank of Scotland in 1998 as deputy CEO to then-CEO Sir George Mathewson, who had ambitions to make RBS a major player rather than a national...

detailed topographical maps of the areas. His brother, Lt. Gen. Sir Walter Kitchener, had also entered the army and was Governor of Bermuda from 1908 to...

Sir John Marks Templeton (29 November 1912 – 8 July 2008) was an American-born British investor, banker, fund manager, and philanthropist. In 1954, he...

complex for a total of 96 cells, with the option of removing the main gun to allow for a total of 128 cells. Using an existing hull design for the Type 83...

world who showed no signs of pregnancy at the start of the day. Sir Reginald Hargreeves, an extraterrestrial disguised as a famous entrepreneur, adopts seven...

council areas (i.e. Option A in each case) as part of the 2009 structural changes to local government in England. The votes had been: * Valid and rejected...