23: John Major: From Brixton to Downing Street (Part 1)
The Rest Is Politics: Leading
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The Fall of Mrs Thatcher
Alistair Campbell: The fall of Mrs. Thatcher is subjected to so many false narratives that it's worth actually remembering what really happened. He says the poll tax destabilized her position in the party long before Europe ran alongside it, but the poll tax was the big one. And just among that, did you as a politician foresee the problems that were going to be? Well, the treasure he did. Nigel Lawson often sent me along to meetings to argue against the poll tax because he had done it privately with Margaret and it had obviously caused friction between them. But I didn't know him until I made him Deputy Prime Minister. Obviously, I became Prime Minister from, from Gwen On
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