John Smith (Labour Party leader)
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John Smith was a British Labour Party politician who served as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party from July 1992 until his death from a heart attack in May 1994. He was also the Member of Parliament (MP) for Monklands East.
Smith, c. 1992–1994
Smith's birthplace in Dalmally, Glenorchy
Gravestone of John Smith on the island of Iona, Scotland. The epitaph is from An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope.
Leader of the Opposition (United Kingdom)
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The Leader of His Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition, more commonly referred to as the Leader of the Opposition, is the person who leads the Official Opposition in the United Kingdom. The position is seen as the shadow head of government of the United Kingdom and thus the shadow prime minister of the United Kingdom.
Leader of the Opposition (United Kingdom)
Charles James Fox, Leader of the Opposition 1783–1806
"the opposition" Bonar Law as caricatured in Vanity Fair, April 1912