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  • noun UK A political supporter of Tony Benn.

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Benn +‎ -ite

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Examples

  • I remember her as Margaret Jackson in the 70s and 80s, a self styled "Bennite".

    Archive 2009-05-01 Alan Smart 2009

  • I remember her as Margaret Jackson in the 70s and 80s, a self styled "Bennite".

    Margaret Beckett Alan Smart 2009

  • The younger brother has been criticised by some within the party for running on a "Bennite" platform, citing his policies on taxation, his questioning of events leading up to the Iraq war and the like for like replacement of the Trident missile defence system.

    Ed Miliband: Loss of less-affluent voters cost Labour the election 2010

  • Or is it the Peter Hain that was almost a "Bennite" in the 80s.

    Breaking ranks 2007

  • After Thatcher left, the Tories still won the next election....and Labour had to transform itself by ridding itself of its "Bennite" elements in order to win the next three elections.

    The Guardian World News Tony Benn 2011

  • Mr Miliband countered accusations that he would drag the party to the 'Bennite' left by pointing to the figures as proof that New Labour was itself now old fashioned.

    The Latest From www.politics.co.uk 2010

  • Miliband, and portray him as a wild-eyed, left-wing extremist, a "Bennite", a throwback to the

    New Statesman 2010

  • When elected, Hilary famously remarked that he was a Benn, not a Bennite.

    Great dynasties of the world: The Benns 2011

  • It was the Bennite idiom: tentative, nonconfrontational.

    Archive 2010-04-01 Blue Tyson 2010

  • When elected, Hilary famously remarked that he was a Benn, not a Bennite.

    Great dynasties of the world: The Benns 2011

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