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You cannot think of Margaret without Denis. There comes a time when every Prime Minister needs someone to give him or her the unvarnished truth, and, in Denis, Margaret had just that.

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John Major
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
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Sir John Major
Rt. Hon. Sir John Major
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