John Major
The Guardian
What holds, and what fails, under pressure, standards and accountability.
John Major is a former Prime Minister known for his pragmatic approach to leadership during a turbulent political era. This interview reveals his commitment to responsible governance and the importance of inclusivity and thoughtful decision-making in politics.
“And I had this vast array of soldiers as far as the eye could see, surrounding this tank in Saudi Arabia. And I looked at them and they were very young, and I knew which they did not know that the war would actually begin on the twelfth of January, and the twelfth of January was my son's sixteenth birthday.”
“And we realize then that having been in government for thirteen years, and then got another five years just we had stretched the Democratic elastic as far as it could go.”
“Will be defeated. And I think that can certainly be done. But I had wider things in mind as well. Our politics has changed at the grassroots. It's very difficult to claim these days that the three major parties are mass movements.”
“If at all, in living membry. And yet we had caused so much hurt, and we had been there so long, and we had blue on blue battles which is always absolutely fatal for any government, for those three reasons we went down to a terrible defeat. But it's also interesting to note that we did it because we thought we had to get rid of inflation.”
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