defector

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Former Labour MP and Brexit campaigner Baroness Kate Hoey, who has sat as a non-affiliated peer since 2020, is among those rumoured to be a possible defector.

From BBC • Jan. 18, 2026

He told me they had welcomed a former Green councillor this week and would unveil a Labour defector next week.

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2026

During the interview, the pair also pleaded to be sent to the South, according to GNU chief Jang Se-yul, himself a North Korean defector who fled the isolated country in the 2000s.

From Barron's • Dec. 24, 2025

The term predatory incursion is also used literally in writings of that period to refer to slightly smaller attacks like the 1781 Raid on Richmond led by American defector Benedict Arnold.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2025

It was illegal, they said, to help a defector.'

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden