Blairesque

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1. Reminiscent of Tony Blair or his policies.

   It is certainly true, furthermore, that Mr Miliband is Blairesque. English, middle-class, tall and presentable: the Semiotic echoes are obvious.

   2008, The Spectator, page 10

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   Lib Dem MPs are accusing their leader, Charles Kennedy, of almost Blairesque control-freakery in agreeing to accept Marsden when many of them were against it.

   2001, New Statesman - Volume 130, Issues 4557-4568, page 10

   Based on the "slow" economic Rhine model, Danish social policies since the 1930s have been instrumental in a redistribution of wealth, a paradigm that the Social Democratic party of the 1990s - now converted to Blairesque "third way" strategies - were involved in phasing out to provide the private sector with more wriggle-room.

   2004, Charlotte Brandt, Lars Bang Larsen, Fundamentalisms of the New Order, page 13