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John Major

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I want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community.


— John Major


#community #european #i #punch #want

I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.


— John Major


#i #long #long time #memoirs #time

I'm very proud of what my parents achieved and what they stood for. They didn't have much, but in many ways they were richer than most.


— John Major


#i #many #most #much #parents

If we want to deliver opportunity for all, we need an economy that delivers jobs for the future.


— John Major


#delivers #economy #future #jobs #need

Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or yen for others.


— John Major


#dollars #factories #industries #into #inventions

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.


— John Major


#conceived #father #i #late #mother

My mother was the center of the family.


— John Major


#family #mother

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.


— John Major


#clever #could #defect #half #many

Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.


— John Major


#comic #forever #great #remembered #ronnie

September the 11th was a huge shock in the United States. It was the first time you had been hit at home in your own territory by terrorist on this scale.


— John Major


#first #first time #had #hit #home






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Black Wednesday

The Conservative majority proved too small for effective control over his backbenchers particularly after the United Kingdom's forced exit from the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) on "Black Wednesday" 16 September 1992 just five months into the new parliament when billions of pounds were spent in a futile attempt to defend the currency's value. By this time the "New" Labour Party was seen as a reformed and fresh alternative under the leadership of Tony Blair; and after eighteen years in office the Conservatives lost the 1997 general election in one of the largest electoral defeats since the Great Reform Act of 1832. Unemployment started to fall; by the start of 1993 it had reached almost 3000000 but by early 1997 it stood at 1700000.

Major's premiership saw the world go through a period of political and military transition after the end of the Cold War. By this time the "New" Labour Party was seen as a reformed and fresh alternative under the leadership of Tony Blair; and after eighteen years in office the Conservatives lost the 1997 general election in one of the largest electoral defeats since the Great Reform Act of 1832.

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