Article: So wrong to say Labour has forgotten John Smith

Article: TIMES PAST : JOHN SMITH, LABOUR PARTY ...
Evening Times;  January 10, 2003 ;     299 words ...Scots politician John Smith helped steer Labour away from far- left policies and reduced the influence ... democracy battle the year after. His popularity soared but on May 12, 1994, John Smith died after suffering a heart attack.

Article: Smith's fudge: Labour Party. (John ...
The Economist (US);  May 22, 1993 ;     700+ words ..."ONE member, one vote," demanded John Smith when he was elected to be Labour's leader, wanting to ... democracy in the party is a long way off. The unions created the Labour Party. They still have it in their grip. Of the 29 members of ...

Article: The price of victory. (Labour Party leader ...
The Economist (US);  October 2, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... did it. Six months ago, John Smith, the Labour leader, told ... the vote on resolutions at Labour Party conferences. They still ... unions remain within the Labour Party. The unions' real fear ... diminish the links between the Labour Party and the trade unions. They ...

Article: What now? (after death of British Labour Party ...
The Economist (US);  May 14, 1994 ;     700+ words ...JOHN SMITH seemed to have recovered from the massive ... attack he suffered in 1988. When the Labour Party's leader attended a Pounds 500-a ... unions, for one-man-one-vote among Labour Party members for the selection of parliamentary ...

Article: Forging his future. (probable United Kingdom Labour ...
The Economist (US);  July 18, 1992 ;     700+ words ... ... d say it--but come back, Neil, all is forgiven." John Smith is a disaster: stiff and reproving on television, a weak ... chancellor, he expected to be the most unpopular man in the Labour Party. He had steeled himself to be booed down at party conferences ...

Article: Scotch morals. (Scotland Labour Party leader ...
The Economist (US);  May 2, 1992 ;     700+ words ... ... is perhaps tasteless to say that the expected emergence of John Smith as Labour leader is partly a racial experiment. But it is ... post-electoral Labour consensus, rather than the "real John Smith". Here again, the Scotch question must be asked. Not The ...

Article: Peas in a pod. (Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Robin Cook, John ...
The Economist (US);  May 21, 1994 ;     700+ words ...LET'S play "spot the moderniser" among the probable candidates to succeed John Smith as Labour's leader. Number One comes from working-class Scottish roots, and represents a seat in that bastion of traditional ...