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      JOHN MAJOR

      THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY

       COPYRIGHT

      William Collins

       A division of HarperCollinsPublisbers Ltd. 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublisbers 1999

      Copyright © John Major 1999, 2000

      John Major asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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      Source ISBN: 9780002570046

      Ebook Edition © FEBRUARY 2013 ISBN 9780007400461

      Version: 2016-08-24

       DEDICATION

      To Norma, Elizabeth and James

      CONTENTS

       COVER

       TITLE PAGE

       9 Prime Minister

       10 The Gulf War

       11 Raising the Standard

       12 Maastricht

       13 Winning a Mandate

       14 Black Wednesday

       15 The ‘Bastards’

       16 Back to Basics

       17 Protecting our Heritage

       18 The Union at Risk

       19 Into the Mists: Bright Hopes, Black Deeds

       20 The Wider World

       21 At the Summit

       22 Hell’s Kitchen

       23 Unparliamentary Behaviour

       24 Faultline Europe

       25 Put up or Shut up

       26 Mad Cows and Europeans

       27 The Economy: Rags to Riches

       28 The Curtain Falls

       AFTERMATH

       THE EMPTY HOUSE

       KEEP READING

       APPENDIX A: Brief Chronology

       APPENDIX B: The Cabinet, November 1990–May 1997

       INDEX

       ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       ABOUT THE AUTHOR

       ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

       FOREWORD

      SINCE I LEFT 10 Downing Street, I have often thought – why politics?

      From politicians themselves the standard response is a burning ambition to improve the lot of the poor, say, or the disabled, or to ‘change things for the better’.

      There is truth in these claims – they are not to be disparaged. But the answer is too often calculated to win approval, too self-serving, and almost always incomplete. Motives for entering politics

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