Bevanismn.

1951 R. Crossman Diary 5 Dec. in M. Foot Aneurin Bevan (1973) II. ix. 373 The fact is that Bevanism and the Bevanites seem much more important, well organized and Machiavellian to the rest of the Labour Party, and indeed to the U.S.A., than they do to us who are in it.

1951 Nation (N.Y.) 15 Dec. 513/1 Bevanism, it seems, has spread to the United States and is becoming respectable.

1963 Times 8 Feb. 11/2 Mr. Wilson's one-time Bevanism..makes him look more a man of the left than he would probably prove to be as leader of the party.

1979 M. Jenkins (title) Bevanism: Labour's high tide.

1951 Here & Now (N.Z.) May 31/2 The few Bevanites have won little support.

1952 Times 8 Mar. 6/1 Although the Bevanite amendment was defeated by a majority of three to one, the Parliamentary Committee was not confident that the matter would end there.

1956 A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes i. iii. 90 ‘She's a Bevanite,’ he added with a grunt of disapproval. His own position as M.P. had been Right-Wing Radical.

1958 New Statesman 28 June 825/1 It was even suggested that another Bevanite MP, who confined his broadcasting activities to sports quizzes, should be barred even from them unless he was balanced by a rota of five orthodox Labour MPs.

1977 Economist 25 June 119/3 His friend and fellow Bevanite..tries to fill in some of the gaps in a brief..postscript.

1980 Economist 15 Nov. 115/3 Note the word ‘Bevanite’. The left–right divisions of the Labour party remain.