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Prime Ministerial, from the New Statesman | John Major

Daily Politics from the New Statesman

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The Importance of Gentleness in Covering the Tories

I think it's probably fair to say that he was underrated and that nobody really expected him to win in 92. And then he won pretty convincingly. So the question I'd like to ask is, is that your fault? You know what, there was quite a bit of coverage at the time so that spitting image had helped the Tories in that election. It had always been banned from doing a show until the polls had closed. But that election, they let us do on the night before,. which maybe think, oh well, we just really think we're impotent.

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