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You’ve got to be an old-ish bastard like me to remember the pre-Blair era of the Labour Party and the most engaging public speaker who was their leader John Smith - a thread /1
He died just before my legal career started. I remember the newspaper billboards (remember those?) at tube stations reporting the headline of his death /2
This whole #Cummings thing needs a John Smith. He would have relished it. ENDS. /7
Watch him here https://youtu.be/P9ZnkGABdA0 ">https://youtu.be/P9ZnkGABd... Please do. You will squirm as did the PM of the day /6
He was proclaimed as the man who would have been PM. He was a truly great orator. I am sorry that there is a whole generation now who never heard him /4
I was devastated. Really, I was. For me he had been the future, and he had been a fabulous Leader of the Opposition /3
He was incisive, witty, deadpan, effective - and he knew OH BOY HE KNEW how to pile on the ridicule to devastating effect /5
