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Blairite

British  
/ ˈblɛəraɪt /

adjective

  1. of or relating to the modernizing policies of Tony Blair

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a supporter of the modernizing policies of Tony Blair

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

Tristram Hunt would once have been called a Blairite.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2017

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

It’s like a cry from the Blairite heartlands.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 28, 2016

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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