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Article: John Smith made mistakes, but at least he was trusted In comparison with him, the Millbank Tendency characters have yet to de velop backbones
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 12, 1999
- Author:
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IT IS an indication of how dramatically British politics has
changed that it seems scarcely believable that it is only five years
since John Smith died. Labour had just made huge gains in the May
council elections and we had opened a 20-point lead over the Tories
in opinion polls. The night before he died he spoke at a Labour fund
raising rally in central London and when he ended his powerful speech
with the words "all we ask is to be given the chance to serve our
nation" there was nobody in the audience who doubted they were
looking at the next prime minister of Britain.
The country's affection for John Smith had grown slowly but, by
the time of his death, people's trust in him was such ...
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...THE man now certain to be crowned as Labour's new leader on Saturday, John Smith, is a lifelong Europhile. It will come naturally to him to look to Europe for the new socialist thinking which his party needs ...
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