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Loyalists point to the government's achievements like increasing the minimum wage, or improving NHS waiting lists.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

Loyalists, who fought on the British side, are not ignored.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

Some fought on the side of the Patriots and some with the Loyalists, and were key players in the conflict.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2025

It recreates the war through the perspectives of Continental soldiers, militiamen, British officers, and American Loyalists, as well as Native soldiers and civilians, enslaved and free African Americans, German mercenaries and French and Spanish allies.

From Salon • Jul. 17, 2025

“They’ve been hunting Loyalists all day. I told Anne it would come to this. Come inside, child. Isabel, is it not?”

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson