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Cones on the A45 in Coventry (July 2006). The Cones Hotline was a telephone hotline introduced by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom John Major in June 1992 to allow members of the public to enquire about roadworks on the country's roads and report areas where traffic cones had been deployed on a road (to close a lane or otherwise restrict traffic flow) for no apparent reason.
Boris, Johnson has been described as one of the few politicians to be more commonly referred to by his given name than his last name. [127] BoJo, a portmanteau of his forename and surname. Often used by the press internationally. [128] [129] BoJo the Clown, a pun on Bozo the Clown, a more pejorative form of the nickname "BoJo". [130] [131] [132 ...
Sir John Major (born 29 March 1943) is a British retired politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997. Following his defeat to Tony Blair's Labour Party in the 1997 general election, he became Leader of the Opposition, serving in this role from May to June 1997.
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John Major (d. 1629) was a Southampton cloth merchant and served as member of parliament for Southampton in 1628. [1] He was the son of John Major, a Southampton brewer who probably originally came from Jersey, and his wife Joyce. [1] His father was an alderman and served as mayor of Southampton in 1601-2. [2]
The UK’s then-prime minister told John Bruton of his concerns about being seen to give into Sinn Fein demands. John Major feared loyalists would walk from ceasefire in 1996 Skip to main content
Hague resigned as Conservative leader after the 2001 general election following his party's second defeat, at which the Conservatives made a net gain of just one seat. He returned to the backbenches , pursuing a career as an author, writing biographies of William Pitt the Younger and William Wilberforce .
He was opposed by John Redwood, the Secretary of State for Wales, and Major won the leadership election without much difficulty. The Conservative majority of 21 seats was gradually eroded by a string of by-election defeats as well as the defection of one MP to Labour, and by the turn of 1997 the Conservatives were without a majority in the ...