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Nadhim Zahawi sacked: today’s Tory scandals are similar to 1990s sleaze stories in more than one way

The 1990s are everywhere right now. From the fashion trends making a comeback in 2023 (I’m told), to the hotly anticipated return of the flashback mystery-box thriller Yellowjackets, it’s starting to feel like the millennium never happened. And where pop culture leads, politics inevitably follows.

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Collusion with loyalist paramilitaries not a government policy – Sir John Major

The former prime minister was answering questions from Sinn Fein MP John Finucane.

The Independent UK

No party or group should put Northern Ireland’s peace in peril – Sir John Major

The former UK prime minister was speaking as he gave evidence to an Irish government committee on Thursday.

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'Tory sleaze and cronyism now arguably worse than in the last days of John Major'

Tax penalties, police fines, security breaches, bullying and using the RAF as a personal air taxi service - all are engulfing Rishi Sunak's government much like scandals in the late 90s did to John Major's Tories

Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak hits the north to try to woo public – but only the invited

Whistle-stop tour seems similar to John Major’s soapbox 1992 campaign, only in sanitised settings with no chance of a hostile reaction

The Guardian - UK

Tony Blair was told to meet Orange Order to ‘influence’ Protestant voters

Declassified records also reveal John Major was worried loyalists would walk away from ceasefire in 1996

The Independent UK

John Major feared loyalists would walk from ceasefire in 1996

The UK’s then-prime minister told John Bruton of his concerns about being seen to give into Sinn Fein demands.

The Independent UK

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Irish Government feared loyalist bombing in Republic after IRA ceasefire ended

"A loyalist bombing campaign in the Republic would be like civil war and would mean the complete unravelling of the peace process"

Belfast Live

Boris Johnson called for ‘hard egg’ approach to Northern Ireland peace process, document reveals

‘He claimed the IRA were in 1994 at the point of defeat’

The Independent UK

Fears possible loyalists bombings would be ‘like civil war’, Irish records show

John Bruton warned a bombing campaign would mean the complete unravelling of the Northern Ireland peace process.

The Independent UK

Johnson urged Irish Government to adopt ‘hard-egg approach’ to NI peace process

A newly released confidential document shows former prime minister Boris Johnson claimed in 1996 that British would beat the IRA eventually.

The Independent UK

‘Obscene’: Calls for distressing Diana scenes to be removed from The Crown

Amid filming of final series of The Crown, people on set for re-enactments of Princess Diana's death call for removal of distressing scenes

The New Daily

King Charles' first 100 days of reign - eggings, race row, Harry and Meghan Netflix drama

Today marks exactly 100 days since the sad death of the late Queen and her eldest son ascending to the throne as King Charles III - and despite his reign still very much being in its infancy, he has had a lot to contend with

Daily Mirror

Get Matt Hancock out of here: these are the political diaries worth reading

For windows on the corridors of power that were actually written contemporaneously, read this selection of books by MPs from left and right

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‘You remember Wendy – she slept with your father’: what I learned writing Mum’s Christmas cards

There I was, filling them out for her, when the revelations started flying

The Independent UK

Late Queen’s childhood friend says The Crown is ‘unfair’ to royal family

Lady Glenconner described the Netflix royal drama as a ‘complete fantasy’.

The Guardian - UK

‘He started breakdancing. I couldn’t believe it!’ Your verdicts on The Crown

From so bad it made you wince to so iconic you couldn’t stop laughing, here are your decidedly mixed feelings about the latest season of the royal drama

The Conversation

The UK's privatisation drive cost lives, research suggests

The UK’s most active period of privatisation saw health and safety disasters and fatalities increase dramatically. In recently published research, we identified 27 multifatality disasters between 1979 and 1997 leading to 763 deaths. These figures were the highest compared with three other European countries.

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The Independent UK

The Crown: Did Prince Charles really have a meeting with John Major?

Major has recently called the Netflix series a ‘barrel-load of nonsense’

Edinburgh Live

The Crown: 7 things from season 5 that never actually took place

Season five of the hit Netflix series, The Crown, has landed on our screens and with people binge watching the show and now awaiting season six, we thought we would take a look at some fact versus fiction.

Daily Mirror

Seven former Prime Ministers line up at Cenotaph for first time - including Liz Truss

Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, Theresa May, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Sir Tony Blair and Sir John Major attended the national Remembrance Sunday service - though Ms Truss did not lay a wreath during her 49-day premiership

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: The Crown; The English; Mammals; I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!

The Crown returns with terrible timing and a great cast squandered; James Corden is the weak link in Jez Butterworth’s pitch-black comedy drama; and there’s a new snake in the jungle…

Chronicle Live

Netflix: The eight biggest lies from The Crown season five which didn't happen in real life

How much of the new Netflix hit is fact, and how much is complete and utter fiction?

The Independent UK

The Crown season five review: This Netflix show is the definition of first world problems

The drama was initially intended as a piece of historical fiction, but the longer it has gone on, the more tawdry it’s become

Daily Mirror

The Crown's most shocking moments - Queen ousting plot, jail threat and intimate call

The eagerly-awaited fifth series of The Crown has finally dropped on Netflix charting the lives of the royals in the early 90s - and here we take a look at some of the season’s most controversial moments

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