He received just 89 votes to Major's 218 in the 1995 ... quit prior to Sir Tony Blair's 1997 landslide win. Announcing his decision to leave the Commons, Sir John - who has been an MP since ...

Divided parties have, over the years, been punished by the electorate at the polls, as Labour had discovered to its cost in 1983, and the Conservatives proved no exemption in 1997. John Major's ...

Last night it emerged that at least the affair had provided Mrs Major with one benefit - a pledge from her husband 'never to return to public life' following the 1997 election. 'John was very ...

Sir John Major told the then American President Bill Clinton that Tony Blair would "do fine" as prime minister, just after Mr Blair trounced him in the 1997 general election. This remark is ...

John Major's affair with Edwina Currie ended after an ultimatum from his wife Norma, a family friend claimed yesterday. In her diaries, Mrs Currie says she ended the secret four-year relationship ...

Former Prime Minister Sir John Major has criticised the previous ... who was Tory PM from 1990 to 1997, said he thought the plan was "odious". "I thought it was un-Conservative, un-British ...

THE former Home Office minister - who quit last December over Rishi Sunak's refusal to go harder on Rwanda - admitted the government had failed to get a grip for the last 14 years. ©News Group ...

This summer we mark the 20th anniversary of a major investigation by Congress of ... for wasting time and money. On June 17, 1997, Katie Couric, then the Today co-anchor, asked the Washington ...

Historian Jeff Shesol, in his 1997 book on the RFK-LBJ feud, concludes that John Kennedy really did regret ... and came to define one of the major political fault lines of the 1960s.

Four acts remain in our bracket to find the best concert in local history: Elton John, Paul McCartney, Jimi Hendrix and ...

John McEnroe won three Wimbledon titles -- 1981 ... McEnroe married musician Patty Smyth in 1997. In 1987, McEnroe didn't win a title for the first time since turning pro. He took a seven-month ...