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You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen.

John Major

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John Major
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
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Bank Manager
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Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
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London
England
Sir John Major
Rt. Hon. Sir John Major
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I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.
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I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.
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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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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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The British don't runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army. We're used to it.
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I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.
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I want to see us build a country that is at ease with itself, a country that is confident and a country that is able and willing to build a better quality of life for all its citizens.
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The world has gone through tremendous change recently both nationally andinternationally.
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If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a good second. In more recent years the Russians were there with 120,000 men for ten years.
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