Blairite
Britishadjective
noun
Example Sentences
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A well-worn joke in Westminster goes like this: “A Blairite, a Brownite and a Corbynite walk into a bar. The barman asks: ‘What are you having, Andy?’
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
Its name had a consensual, bland-but-uplifting, perfectly Blairite ring: United for Change.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 20, 2018
Although no Blairite, he went out of his way to praise the Labour governments led by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown from 1997 to 2010.
From Economist ● Sep. 28, 2016
First elected to Parliament in 2010 as MP for Leicester West and appointed to the shadow front bench the same year, Ms Kendall is seen as a Blairite contender.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2015
The most obvious symbol of the internal conflict was the post-2010 battle of the brothers — David Miliband, a Blairite who was foreign secretary, versus Ed Miliband, a Brownite.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2015
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