Heard on the news that John Major has won the leadership of the Tory Party with 185 votes against 56 for Hurd and 131 for Heseltine; as he was only two votes short of an overall majority Hurd and Heseltine had immediately withdrawn. So he becomes the youngest Prime Minister this century. A competent person from a simple background, like the Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey. He is a new type of Thatcherite really; not strident, probably slightly less ideological, more sympathetic to Europe, a hard man in terms of financial policy, but confident.
Tony Benn, Diary 27th November 1990.
Steve Bell had a different view and its his images in the Guardian that defined the Major era, particularly the underpants
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