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

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The Ungovernability of the Tory Party

If I went back to the Alistair of the mid-1990s, you would have said this is a truly horrible government. They've imposed completely unnecessary destructive cuts. We need new labour to come in. We need a new social contract. We need to increase public spending. And other things too. This is why you've got to become a Labour candidate. Stop all this trying to get onto the Tory candidates list again. You're such a Labour person. No, it's obvious. So, let me just push you on that one more time. Basically, Tony Blair and you believed that he needed to be got rid of and you needed to get in. It was a very

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