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Liberal Unionist

noun

  1. a Liberal who opposed Gladstone's policy of Irish Home Rule in 1886 and after
“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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  • Liberal Unionism, noun
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Davy Wilson, who runs logistics company Freight Partnership, describes himself as a "liberal unionist".

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A liberal unionist, he was sympathetic to workers' rights.

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“The real story of the night is the Alliance Party in the middle, which is now our third-largest party,” said Newton Emerson, a political commentator in Northern Ireland, who describes himself as a “liberal unionist.”

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Ms Arrimadas, who heads the Catalan wing of the liberal unionist Citizens party, said it was "hate speech".

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At the age of 21 he decided to live in England, where he married an English cousin, Evelina, and became a member of Parliament for the Liberal Unionist Party in 1885.

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