The Latest Breaking News from John Major

Current Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle described Lady Boothroyd as a ‘groundbreaking parliamentarian’ as MPs observed a minute’s silence in her memory.

For those of a certain maturity, the Nineties offered mixed messages. The overthrow of Margaret Thatcher, the ERM debacle and the humiliation by elements in his own party of John Major were all associated with enduring economic misery. The arrival in 1997 of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, the independence…

Johnson’s administration made promises over Northern Ireland deal it knew were unworkable, former PM tells MPs

The ex-prime minister said he is not a ‘significant Europhile’ but believes the UK was stronger in the European Union

Ex-PM says UK stronger in the EU – as Jeremy Hunt challenged to admit Britain ‘poorer’ after Brexit

The former PM said he was ‘baffled’ how the post-Brexit treaty was agreed in its current form.

ONE of the first scandals to hit John Major’s premiership concerned the sale of arms by British companies.

RISHI Sunak will find it “hard to shift” the Tory association with sleaze and scandal which has echoes of the downfall of the party in the…

Inertia on the NHS and obstinacy on strikes have left the equivocating PM clinging to a life raft, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee