# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-major
# Generated: 2026-09-01T09:18:08.141Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Major left school before sixteen, worked insurance, and climbed from local council in Lambeth to parliament in 1979. He rose fast under Thatcher — Treasury, Foreign Secretary, Chancellor — then won the leadership when she fell in 1990. His mild manner replaced her iron, but the job was no easier: he navigated the Gulf War, the Maastricht Treaty, Black Wednesday's currency crash, and the grinding work that helped broker peace in Northern Ireland. In 1992 he pulled more than fourteen million votes, a record that still stands. Then the fractures widened — Europe split the party, scandals mounted, Labour surged under Blair. Major won a desperate leadership challenge in 1995 but couldn't stop the drift. In 1997 the landslide came. He stepped down, spent four years on the backbenches, then left parliament in 2001 for writing, business, and the long view from the margin.