Former prime minister of the United Kingdom (born 1943)
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He won the biggest popular vote in British political history, then watched his party tear itself apart over Europe. Major inherited Thatcher's Conservative machine in 1990, steered it to an unexpected fourth term, and presided over its slow collapse into the landslide that ended eighteen years of Tory rule.
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,…
Sourced, dated quotes from John Major
Oh, Lord, if I must die today, Please make it after Close of Play. For this, I know, if nothing more, I will not go – without the score.
Summers simply won't be the same without him.
If the implication of his remarks is that we should sit down and talk with Mr. Adams and the Provisional IRA, I can say only that that would turn my stomach and those of most hon.
I would like the public to have a crusade against crime and change their attitude from being forgiving of crime to being considerate to the victim.
All my adult life I have seen British governments driven off their virtuous pursuit of low inflation by market problems or political pressures.
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