Fatalism, Extenuation and Despair
Peter Clarke: John Major, 5 March 1998
Major: A Political Life
by Anthony Seldon.
Weidenfeld, 856 pp., £25, October 1997,0 297 81607 1 Show More
by Anthony Seldon.
Weidenfeld, 856 pp., £25, October 1997,
“... such a succession when young John Major first stood as a Conservative candidate for the Larkhill ward of Lambeth in 1964. The experience of living in rented rooms in Cold-harbour Lane, Brixton, after his father’s business had failed was still fresh. The fact of having left school early, with embarrassingly few qualifications, meant that Major was ... ”