23: John Major: From Brixton to Downing Street (Part 1)
The Rest Is Politics: Leading
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The Changes in the Media Landscape Since the 1980s
There was no social media then, which makes life immeasurably more difficult for many politicians. I think the newspapers are much more part of the debate now than they were then. And we began to see quite a bit of that at the end of the 80s and certainly in the 90s when the government ran into trouble over Europe. The work comments made that really didn't help from within Downing Street, I don't know who made them. It wasn't something that could be handled by a Bernardina or anybody else. You mentioned Jeffrey Howe's resignation speech. What is it about the number 10, number 11 relationship that makes it so difficult to manage? We'll come on
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