"John was essentially a fudge leader. Tony Blair was the linear descendant of Neil Kinnock as a modernising Labour leader. John Smith was not."

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Members of the Parliament of the United KingdomLawyers from ScotlandLabour Party (UK) politiciansPoliticians from ScotlandLeaders of the Opposition (United Kingdom)
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Charles Clarke, quoted in Philip Gould, The Unfinished Revolution: How the Modernisers Saved the Labour Party (1998), p. 178