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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 Tory Party's Failure to Stand Up to the Conservative Party

I'm not going to alert the Labour Party to what they're doing that will cost them votes to the next general election. I believe in conserving, obeying the law and internationalism rather than nationalism. Parts of my party may have changed, but not all of it. Did you vote conservative when Boris Johnson was leader? I voted for my local candidate. Let's go to the big fault line for a succession of conservative leaders probably going back to Ted Heath. The scale of the defeat was, but not the fact of it. So John, let's develop that then.

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