article_snippet.sent: Cyril Smith took the party whip for four years in Parliament and was feted as a Lib-Dem grandee in four years in Parliament before Cyril Smith died .
article_snippet.sent: In fact Cyril Smith took the party whip for four years in Parliament and was feted as a Lib Dem grandee in four years in Parliament before he died.
article_snippet.sent: Cyril Smith was elected as a Liberal MP in 1972, but after the Lib Dems were formed in 1988 took the whip of any political party until the whip of the new party retirement from Parliament in 1992.
article_snippet.sent: the whip of the new party remained a Liberal Democrat grandee up to the whip of the new party death in 2010 at the age of 82.