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24: John Major: The Gulf War, Black Wednesday, and Populism (Part 2)

The Rest Is Politics: Leading

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The Mastery Treaty Negotiations

The mastery treaty negotiations felt like one of the most difficult, complicated European negotiations. The biggest single mistake that I made in politics was not to get the mastery treaty through before the 92 election. New people coming into Parliament led by some people who'd been there and encouraged by others who should have known better caused a great deal of trouble getting the treaty through. We couldn't have gone on any longer.

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