He could be challenging in his views and said what he believed even if it sometimes meant flouting party orthodoxy.

The week ahead will reveal whether any of them are willing to buck party orthodoxy for the sake of the economy.

She has trampled on party orthodoxy by having the temerity to suggest that parents should be able to shop around for good schools.

Gradually the fluid politics of the past were replaced by much clearer party orthodoxies.

Irritated by the party orthodoxy he swiftly became part of a left opposition within the union, and was among the dissidents expelled from the party in 1966.