John Smith lives 10 more years

WI Smith recovered from the 1994 heart attack.

My guess is that Labour still does very well but does not get the mad super hero swing.

Major is as unpopular as ever

I think that he overall outcome of the 1997 election is the same but Liberal Democrats get 3% more votes and maybe 20 more seats. Labourgets 15 less and tories 5 less.

I also think that in looking for an alternative system the Commission do not start with the impossilge (something Blair would like)

There is a referendum on STV in 3 seater disticts at the tme of the 2001 election and it carries narrowly

Smith tells GW Bush that he will not launch an aggressive war in Iraq.

Ian Duncan attacks Labour and Lib Dems for treachery to the US and looks stupid.

Any other ideas?
 
I always belived if John Smith had lived, then Labour would have won the 1997 election with a majority between 80-100 seats ish.
Portillio would have kept his seat, and become Tory leader post election.
 
I think the tories poll as badly and althouth the Lib Dem vote is up Labour only wins slightly fewer seats because the tactical factor is stronger
 
It's unlikely there's going to be a referendum on the voting system. Smith's support for electoral reform was tepid, at best. He didn't support it himself, didn't believe in it himself, he only really committed himself to a referendum on the issue in order to appease, in opposition, the growing number of people in Labour who were in favour. That was the policy Tony Blair inherited.

I find questions about the Iraq War a little moot. Smith was not a young man even when he took over the leadership. By 2003 he would be a pensioner. Even leaving aside considerations about his health and age, which are pertinent factors and would be in his mind, I can't see him taking Labour into a third term, it just wouldn't be in his nature to go on and on. A fitting swansong might be to hold a referendum on the Euro - an issue which genuinely was something Smith believed in - early in the second term, assuming he makes it that far. Gordon would be against that of course, but this isn't going to be a twin premiership like OTL, and in any case, if it gets the old man out of the door with a legacy, of whatever description, why object too strenuously.
 
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