Sentence given to a grasping English type like Jeffrey Archer (8)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

LIFE (short for a life sentence in prison) + PER (a = for each, as in “once per day”), containing (grasping) E (abbreviation for English). Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare, novelist and former politician; a hint of an extended definition because his somewhat chequered career has included a prison sentence (though not for life).