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18 hours ago · Major was also one of the prime ministers portrayed in the 2013 stage play The Audience. Less flatteringly, Major was the subject of the song John Major – Fuck You by Scottish punk band Oi Polloi. Major was portrayed by Jonny Lee Miller in the fifth season of The Crown in 2022.
2 days ago · She was succeeded by John Major, her Chancellor of the Exchequer. On becoming prime minister after her party won the 1979 general election, Thatcher introduced a series of economic policies intended to reverse high inflation and Britain's struggles in the wake of the Winter of Discontent and an oncoming recession.
3 days ago · Boris Johnson, who may have done as much damage but took more time to do it, signed up last year with Harper Collins to tell his prime-ministerial story. There’s money in memoirs (though Mr...
5 days ago · Sir Denis Thatcher described John Major as a "ghastly" Prime Minister in an interview given a few months before his death, it has been disclosed. And he said that if Major had lost the...
1 day ago · The chancellor of the exchequer, often abbreviated to Chancellor, [3] is a senior minister of the Crown within Government of the United Kingdom, and head of His Majesty's Treasury. As one of the four Great Offices of State, the chancellor is a high-ranking member of the British Cabinet .
1 day ago · Margaret Thatcher was the first woman to serve as a prime minister in Europe and Britain’s longest continuously serving prime minister since 1827. She was also the only British prime minister in the 20th century to win three consecutive terms.
1 day ago · When she did not receive the required majority, she withdrew, and John Major, the chancellor of the Exchequer since October 1989, was chosen on November 27. Thatcher resigned as prime minister the following day and was replaced by Major. The government of John Major (1990–97)
