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REVEALED: 9 | Vintage Vibes

Suede and Sir John Major team up for ‘centrist dads’ festival

Centrist dads, assemble.

Evening Standard

Dad's 'future changed forever' the day son was killed in bombing

Hundreds of people lined the streets to remember the two boys who lost their lives in the Warrington bombing

Liverpool Echo

How does inheritance work in the royal family?

King Charles III received a vast inheritance from his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II

The Independent UK

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Starmer and Sunak are both haunted by the spectres of election defeats past

Labour is spooked by its defeat in 1992, while the Tories fear a repeat of what happened to them in 1997

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak has time to turn the polls around, if the Tories will let him

The Conservatives have bounced back from 20-point poll deficits to win general elections before, but they didn’t have Liz Truss and Boris Johnson to reckon with

The Guardian - UK

MPs across the House pay tribute to first female Commons speaker Betty Boothroyd

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

The Independent UK

OPINION - Signs of green shoots for our economy? Sadly, I don’t think they exist

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…

Evening Standard

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John Major warns Boris Johnson’s ‘neuralgic’ supporters must not sabotage Rishi Sunak’s Brexit deal

Former PM defends Sunak’s attempts to improve on ‘pretty poor’ protocol deal struck by Johnson

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak poised to defy DUP and announce Brexit deal

PM expected to set out agreement as soon as Monday, as Brexiteers reveal ‘instinct’ to back compromise

The Independent UK

Behind-the-scenes at Spitting Image stage show including cost of puppets and creation

Sanjeeta Bains went behind the scenes at Idiots Assemble: Spitting Image Saves the World at the Birmingham Rep theatre to speak to director and co-writer Sean Foley about the satirical puppets

Daily Mirror

John Major says Britain made a “colossal mistake” when it left the European Union

"I understand the sovereignty arguments, though many of them are more semantic than real"

Belfast Live

Boris Johnson agreed Brexit protocol knowing it was a ‘mess’, says John Major

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

The Guardian - UK

Brexit was a ‘colossal mistake’, former PM Sir John Major tells committee

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

Evening Standard

Brexit ‘colossal mistake’, ex-Tory PM John Major tells MPs

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

The Independent UK

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Compromise on protocol needed to restore government to Northern Ireland – Major

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

The National (Scotland)

From the nineties to now: A history of dodgy Tory behaviour

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

The National (Scotland)

Experts give damning verdict on Rishi Sunak's 'sleazy' government

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…

The Guardian - UK

Sunak refuses to even utter the word crisis. But how else to describe his first 100 days?

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

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The Conversation

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.

The Independent UK

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.

Daily Mirror

'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

The Guardian - UK

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 Independent 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.

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