Sunakite

From Sunak +‎ -ite.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsuːnækaɪt/

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Sunakite (plural Sunakites)

1. (UK politics, neologism) A political supporter of Rishi Sunak (born 1980), British Conservative politician and Prime Minister from 2022 to 2024.

   Coordinate terms: Thatcherite, Majorite, Blairite, Brownite, Cameronite, Mayite, Johnsonite, Trussite

   • 2022 August 10, Patrick O'Flynn, “Why Rishi Sunak shouldn’t quit”, in The Spectator‎^[1]:

     This is stupid politics from the Sunakites. It is akin to being 4-0 down in a football match in injury time and instead of accepting defeat gracefully going around elbowing opponents in the face and performing leg-breaking tackles.

   • 2023 October 1, Daniel Hannan, “It may be too late, but it is heartening to see Sunak governing like a true Conservative”, in Sunday Telegraph, page 21:

     I don't write as a long-term Sunakite (or Sunakster or Sunakparast or whatever the agentive sux is). The only conversation I have had with our dapper PM was an awkward phone call in which I told him I would be voting for Liz Truss.

   • 2024 July 23, Anne McElvoy, “Clunky Kamala can still take the fight to Trump with vigour”, in Evening Standard, page 16:

     Team Sunak were clearly hoping for a "moment" which would flesh out his hopes of having the UK act as a bridge between the US and European regulation. The result was a speech peculiarly unsuited to an international event, to the horror of Sunakites who hoped for "special AI relationship with knobs on" (as one aide put it).

Sunakite (not comparable)

1. (UK politics) Of or relating to the government, policies, or supporters of Rishi Sunak.
   • 2022 August 21, John Rentoul, “Why Truss could be a successful prime minister”, in Gulf Today‎^[2]:

     My view is that Truss will be forced to adopt those Sunakite, overwhelmingly statist policies anyway, because the alternative is mass penury. The first test of her skill will be how she presents the emergency measures as something she, as a conviction politician, believed in all along.

   • 2023 June 30, John Rentoul, “Defeat over the Rwanda policy is a disaster for Sunak”, in The Independent, page 25:

     Alex Chalk, the cool Sunakite justice secretary, has just abandoned Dominic Raab’s “British Bill of Rights”, which was itself a rather timid attempt to curtail the European court’s powers.

   • 2025 March 8, Declan Lyons, “The punishing life of a chief whip”, in The Spectator, London:

     The diaries are the first attempt at setting out a recognisably Sunakite version of the Tories’ recent history. In essence the argument goes that there was nothing that could have rescued the party’s fortunes after Truss resigned.