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John Major

June 2024

  • Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves standing by a red bus with the word 'change 'on the side

    Labour and Conservative battlebuses hit the road, but ‘lonely figure’ Sunak seems like a solo traveller

    Keir Starmer launched his campaign bus on Saturday with his senior shadow cabinet members, but Tory ‘big beasts’ appeared to have deserted the PM in Redcar

April 2024

  • A man in a suit leaving a podium

    Reports of Sunak’s foul mood in No 10 echo the final days of other dying administrations

    Stories have emerged of a foul mood in Downing Street; it was ever thus behind the scenes in a dying administration

March 2024

  • John Major looks pensive during the 1997 general election.

    Like it’s 1997? Major’s lot weren’t so pointless, poisonous or loathed

    Tim Bale
  • Former Conservative deputy chairman Lee Anderson speaks during a press conference to announce his defection to Reform UK.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Both Labour and group of Conservative MPs say Lee Anderson defection highlights Tory failings – as it happened

February 2024

  • Jeremy Hunt (right) pictured with Rishi Sunak during a visit to a factory in Yorkshire earlier this week.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Jeremy Hunt ‘could adopt Labour tax-raising plans’ – as it happened

  • Downing Street visitors' book open flat with signatures of the queen and Prince Philip, and numerous ex-prime ministers visible

    Sale of historic Downing Street visitors’ book halted due to ownership row

January 2024

  • Polly Toynbee

    Wales has been brave enough to completely rethink the hated council tax. Take note, England

    Polly Toynbee
  • Andy Beckett

    After 14 years of Tory misrule, voters will crave a fresh start. That may be a blessing for Starmer – or a curse

    Andy Beckett

December 2023

  • John and Norma Major

    Norma Major ‘discreetly’ moved her clothes out of Downing Street in anticipation of a Labour victory

    Declassified files from John Major’s private secretary reveal the extraordinary level of planning that goes into a handover of power

May 2023

  • Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty arrive in Hiroshima, Japan on 18 May, ahead of the G7 summit

    After Brexit: what are the Tories really for?

    As Rishi Sunak flew off to Japan, he left behind a party flailing around for an identity

April 2023

  • Boris Johnson and Liz Truss

    All ex-PMs invited to Belfast gala marking 25 years of Good Friday agreement

    Invites include Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, accused of wrecking Northern Ireland’s place in the UK

February 2023

  • John Major speaking to a Commons committee.

    Boris Johnson agreed Brexit protocol knowing it was a ‘mess’, says John Major

    Johnson’s administration made promises over Northern Ireland deal it knew were unworkable, former PM tells MPs

December 2022

  • Boris Johnson, pictured earlier this year

    Boris Johnson urged ‘hard egg’ approach to NI peace process, papers reveal

    Declassified documents suggest Johnson believed in 1996 that Britain could crush the IRA

November 2022

  • Outline image of Margaret Thatcher. Illustration: Hulton Archive/Getty/Guardian Design

    The Audio Long Read
    My small, doomed stand against Margaret Thatcher’s war on truth – podcast

  • Dominic West and Elizabeth Debicki as Charles and Diana in The Crown

    John Major and Tony Blair criticise The Crown’s dramatisation of secret meeting

October 2022

  • Maggie web for long read

    The long read
    My small, doomed stand against Thatcher’s war on truth

    The long read: As a civil servant in the 1980s, I had a front row seat as the British government began to lose touch with reality. Since then, things have only got worse
  • RHS Chelsea Flower Show Kicks Off After Pandemic-Related Delay<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 20: Dame Judi Dench stands with Chelsea pensioners on the RHS Queen's Green Canopy Garden on Chelsea Flower Shows' press day on September 20, 2021 in London, England. This year's RHS Chelsea Flower Show was delayed from its usual spring dates due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which also prompted its cancellation last year. Previously, only two World Wars had caused the event's suspension. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images,)

    Judi Dench wins royal rumble as Netflix labels The Crown ‘fictional dramatisation’

    Trailer now comes with disclaimer after the actor accused the show of sacrificing accuracy for ‘crude sensationalism’

    • Netflix’s The Crown ‘cruelly unjust’ for leaving off accuracy disclaimer, says Judi Dench

    • John Major dismisses The Crown as a ‘barrel-load of nonsense’

    • Jonny Lee Miller becomes John Major in pictures released from The Crown

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