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I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.

John Major

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John Major
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
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I am not running as Son of Margaret Thatcher. I have my own priorities and my own programmes.
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My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.
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You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen.
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What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?
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