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When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.

John Major

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John Major
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
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I'm very proud of what my parents achieved and what they stood for. They didn't have much, but in many ways they were richer than most.
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In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.
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I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much I made only a beginning, and it was not enough.
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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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