Two Men in a Boat
Ian Aitken, 15 August 1991
John Major: The Making of the Prime Minister
by Bruce Anderson.
Fourth Estate, 324 pp., £16.99, June 1991,9781872180540 Show More
by Bruce Anderson.
Fourth Estate, 324 pp., £16.99, June 1991,
‘My Style of Government’: The Thatcher Years
by Nicholas Ridley.
Hutchinson, 275 pp., £16.99, July 1991,0 09 175051 2 Show More
by Nicholas Ridley.
Hutchinson, 275 pp., £16.99, July 1991,
“... to the highest elective office in the land only 11 and a half years after becoming an MP in Mrs Thatcher’s first election victory, remarkable though that is in itself. The other reason why he is entitled to be bemused by the whole astonishing chain of events is that he is, by almost anybody’s standards, quite the least charismatic person to hold the ... ”