John Major
Former prime ministers David Cameron, Tony Blair and John Major and current Premier David Cameron (back) attend the ceremonial funeral of British former prime minister Margaret Thatcher in St Paul's Cathedral in central London on April 17, 2013. The funeral of Margaret Thatcher took place on April 17, with Queen Elizabeth II leading mourners from around the world in bidding farewell to one of Britain's most influential and divisive prime ministers.
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This is worse than John Major. There was quite a lot of sympathy for him because of the Maastricht rebels. He also listened, though he probably listened too much. With Cameron it feels like this could be terminal – and will be so before the election.
The Conservatives are in chaos on Europe just like under John Major. The Prime Minister can’t tell us what powers he wants to draw back from Europe. His strategy and the uncertainty is putting jobs and investment in the UK at risk. He needs to tell us the terms of the debate.
This is really what it means for a Prime Minister to be in office but not in power. It is not John Major all over again, it is much worse than that. At least he tried to stand up to the Eurosceptics.More quotes »
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I Want to Slap David Cameron
David Cameron is the new John Major, is he? The Tory party is once again an electoral basket case, is it? Well, I remember the Major government – perhaps rather better than a lot of the youngsters now making slap-dash comparisons between then and now. Believe from Real Clear World Read more »
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Tory self-harm over Europe has buried the good news
statesmen, like policemen, seem to be getting younger these days). As a former Conservative leader and a Cabinet minister in John Major’s government, he knows from cruel experience how high is the cost of disunity, or perceived disunity. Once a party is seen from The Telegraph Read more »
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SIMON HEFFER: A serious contender? The grey man who could be David Cameron's nemesis
so anxious to match Mr Gove on this question that his fellow MPs now believe he, too, is eyeing the top job. After all: if John Major could do it, why shouldn’t he? ‘Philip is a proper Tory,’ one of his friends told me. ‘And he is hugely focused.’ He has certainly from Daily Mail - UK Read more »
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Exit Europe from the left | Bob Crow
the Tories dumped the born-again Eurosceptic Thatcher, John Major rammed through the Maastricht treaty and embarked on the disastrous privatisation of our railways using EU directives – a model now set to be rolled out across the continent. Even now, the majority from Guardian Unlimited Read more »
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James Wharton: the MP aged 29 who could give us all a say on Europe
if I got the call to be a minister, but winning this seat was a huge challenge And Mr Wharton, now 29, was only eight when John Major signed the Maastricht Treaty in 1992. He entered Parliament as MP for Stockton South in 2010, aged 26, scraping home by gaining from Daily Express Read more »
