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John Major 's term as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom began on 28 November 1990 when he accepted an invitation of Queen Elizabeth II to form a government, succeeding Margaret Thatcher, and ended on 2 May 1997 following the Conservative Party's defeat in the 1997 general election by the Labour Party, led by Tony Blair.
Oct 16, 2022 · John Major dismisses The Crown as a ‘barrel-load of nonsense’. Former PM angered by fictitious storyline in which Charles seeks his help in getting the Queen to abdicate. Emine Sinmaz. Sun 16...
The Rt Hon Sir John Major KG CH. Conservative 1990 to 1997. As Prime Minister Sir John Major oversaw Britain's longest period of continuous economic growth and the beginning of the Northern...
Major is the most recent person to have become Leader of the Opposition, and faced the Prime Minister at PMQs, after having been Prime Minister themselves. Major was Leader of the Opposition over May-June 1997.
Apr 28, 2017 · Published: April 28, 2017 10:19am EDT. Few would say that John Major was among the most distinguished of prime ministers, sandwiched as he was between the much more dramatic premierships and ...
May 29, 2018 · John Major. The youngest British prime minister of the 20th century, John Major (born 1943) succeeded Margaret Thatcher as leader of the Conservative Party and political head of the United Kingdom in 1990, a post he held until 1997. John Major had a highly unusual background for a Conservative Party leader.
BIOGRAPHY. Sir John Major was born on 29th March 1943, the son of Tom Ball, known as Tom Major, and Gwen Major. He was educated at Cheam Common Primary School and then Rutlish Grammar School. He left school in 1959, on the day before his sixteenth birthday.
