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  • noun a member of the British Labour Party.

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  • noun a member or supporter of the Labour Party, the left wing party of Great Britain

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  • noun a member of the British Labour Party

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Examples

  • I am a from another party blogging to make you think I am a "Labourite", so I can stir up trouble between you and your coalition partners :- Clever isn't it?

    What no Wales? 2008

  • The British jingo, the pious Christian pacifist, the member of an exclusive club, the mere "Labourite"; all these he had been (or imagined he had been), and all these he attacked in turn.

    Sidney Percival Bunting Roux, Edward 1943

  • With English Labour stealing nearly £½bn from Wales, whilst not cutting several times that on Crossfail, a London railway scheme to take East Enders to Westbourne Park (and other equally useless places), I shouldn't even count on the Welsh Secretary having the confidence of any Welsh Labourite with a brain.

    No confidence 2009

  • But one thing that she did do for the country is to put the whole Labourite obsession with class and envy and leveling down and “tax them until the pips squeak” outside the Overton window.

    Matthew Yglesias » Is The Left in Crisis? 2010

  • But one thing that she did do for the country is to put the whole Labourite obsession with class and envy and leveling down and “tax them until the pips squeak” outside the Overton window.

    Matthew Yglesias » Is The Left in Crisis? 2010

  • The eleventh would have been a Tory in 1999 and a Labourite in 2004.

    Eurodisparity 2009

  • We suspect a class-obsessed Labourite author, but in these days of political cross-dressing, nothing is assured.

    Diary 2010

  • But it was the trendy social-worker Labourite vocabulary I was lamenting, not the facts ... "communities," "religious identities", etc. John Wilkes

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • But it was the trendy social-worker Labourite vocabulary I was lamenting, not the facts ... "communities," "religious identities", etc. John Wilkes

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • If you're a Labourite and you're against Cameron's plan, let me tell you that at least you have one thing to be grateful for.

    Britain's austerity challenge to Obama 2010

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