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 | Always a loyal follower of party directives from Moscow, he was instrumental in the September 1948 deposition as secretary-general of the Polish Workers' Party of Gomulka, who had attempted to bend the Soviet party line to Polish circumstances. |
| Labour MPs elected him to their shadow cabinet in 1988 at the unusually young age of 35. |
| After Labour's defeat in the April 1992 general election, Blair became the most outspoken of the "modernizers." In July 1992 John Smith was elected Labour leader and appointed Blair as shadow home secretary. |
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