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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 Disappointment of Ian Duncan

I was struck by how difficult he found it to empathize at all with the right wing of the Conservative Party. He wrote them off as these guys had left over if nostalgic for Empire. That cannot have helped him in managing the Master's Rebels. I think there must be a part of John Major that thinks that every time- that speech I mentioned about democracy or the speech he made recently about prison reform, you often see when he's not on social media.

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