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First Major Cabinet [1] Portfolio Minister Term Cabinet ministers: Prime Minister First Lord of the Treasury Minister for the Civil Service: The Rt Hon. John Major MP: 1990–97 Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain: The Rt Hon. The Lord Mackay of Clashfern: 1987–97 Chancellor of the Exchequer: The Rt Hon. Norman Lamont MP: 1990–93 Foreign ...
[575] [576] Major visited the country twice, becoming the first British prime minister to attend India's Republic Day in 1993. [ 577 ] [ 578 ] In 2020 it emerged that Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto had asked Major to facilitate an informal meeting between her and Indian Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao , but Rao rejected the offer.
Prime Minister John Major and President Bill Clinton deliver press statements at the White House in 1993. On 10 March 1992, Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont delivered his budget speech to the House of Commons, which included tax cuts widely perceived to achieve votes at the forthcoming general election.
First Cabinet of Second Major ministry [3] Portfolio Minister Term Cabinet ministers: Prime Minister First Lord of the Treasury Minister for the Civil Service: The Rt Hon. John Major MP: 1990–97 Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain: The Rt Hon. The Lord Mackay of Clashfern: 1987–97 Chancellor of the Exchequer: The Rt Hon. Norman Lamont MP ...
This is a list of prime ministers of the United Kingdom by age. This table can be sorted to display prime ministers of the United Kingdom by name, order of office, date of birth, age at appointment, length of retirement, or lifespan. Age at appointment is determined by the day a prime minister assumed office for the first time. Length of retirement is determined from the day a prime minister ...
Obviously, The Crown is a work of fiction based in fact, but one particular scene has caused all kinds of drama: Prince Charles’s secret meeting with prime minister John Major.
Major was declared the leader of the party on the evening of Tuesday 27 November 1990. Following Thatcher's formal resignation as prime minister, Queen Elizabeth II invited Major to form a government the next day. Hurd was re-appointed as foreign secretary and Heseltine returned to the Cabinet as environment secretary, a post he had held in the ...
The UK’s then-prime minister told John Bruton of his concerns about being seen to give into Sinn Fein demands. ... John Major was concerned loyalists would walk away from the ceasefire in 1996 ...