John Smith was a British politician who was Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party from July 1992 until his death in May 1994. He was also Member of Parliament for Monklands East.
Smith in 1989
Smith's birthplace in Dalmally, Glenorchy
Gravestone of Smith on the island of Iona, Scotland. The epitaph is from An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope.
Neil Kinnock
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Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock is a Welsh politician who was Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992. He was a Member of Parliament from 1970 to 1995, first for B
John Smith (Labour Party leader)
…Energy (1982–1983), Employment (1983–1984), Trade and Industry (1984–1987) and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (1987–1992). After Labour leader Neil Kinnock resigned following the Party's surprise loss in the 1992 general election to new Conservative leader John Major, Smith was elected his successor in…
Official portrait, 1995
Kinnock meeting Dutch Labour Party leader Joop den Uyl in 1984
Kinnock in 1989
Kinnock conceding the 1992 general election