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Smith Square, n. U.K. Pol.|ˈsmɪθ ˈskwɛə(r)|
[The name of a square in Westminster, the location since 1958 of the headquarters of the British Conservative Party. The square also contained the headquarters of the Labour Party (Transport House, q.v.) between 1928 and 1980.]
By metonymy, the leadership of the Conservative Party; occas. the leadership of both the Conservative and Labour parties.
1968R. Collin Locust on Wind xiv. 127 ‘He's not uncomplicated enough to make the top in politics,..they feel they can't trust him.’ ‘But this Anglo-German Amity business.’.. ‘Another thing that scares his Smith Square chums off.’ 1976Times 8 Mar. 13/3 Unless..we are eventually to finish up with the outrage of a party list system, whereby Smith Square would bureaucratically decide Buggins's turn. 1980Economist 8 Mar. 67/1 Nobody, Labour or Tory, is prepared to make real cuts in staffing. An honest message from Smith Square to the 30{pcnt} of the electorate who will bother to vote is that domestic rates are a much less onerous tax than people think. 1987Independent 27 Sept. 19/4 According to ministers there is almost as much dead wood in Smith Square as in Kew Gardens. |