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    Julian Knight is a journalist currently working as an editor at the Independent on Sunday. The Scottish National Party has the second largest party membership, [30] but a smaller number of MPs as it only fields candidates for constituencies in Scotland.The Liberal Party was one of the two dominant parties (along with the Conservatives) from its founding until the 1920s, when it rapidly declined in popularity, and was supplanted on the left by the Labour Party, which was founded in 1900 and formed its first minority government in 1924. He continued to move the Labour Party towards the "centre" by loosening links with the unions and continuing many of Thatcher's neoliberal policies. Shadow Home Secretary Tony Blair became Leader of the Labour Party following Smith's sudden death from a heart attack in 1994.

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