John Major

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Born	29 March 1943 Carshalton, Surrey, England
Nationality	British
Religion	Anglicanism
Children	James Elizabeth
Spouse	Norma Johnson
Member of	Chatham House/Governors, Credit Suisse, Ditchley/Governors, Ditchley/UK
Party	Conservative
Relatives	• Tom Major-Ball • Terry Major-Ball
UK Prime Minister In office 28 November 1990 - 2 May 1997  European Advisory Board member In office 1998 - 14 May 2001 Employer Carlyle Group  Chairman of Carlyle Europe In office May 2001 - 2004 Employer Carlyle Group  Leader of the Opposition  In office 2 May 1997 - 19 June 1997  Shadow Foreign Secretary  In office 7 May 1997 - 11 June 1997 Succeeded by Michael Howard  Leader of the Conservative Party  In office 28 November 1990 - 19 June 1997 Deputy Peter Lilley Succeeded by William Hague  Chancellor of the Exchequer  In office 26 October 1989 - 28 November 1990 Preceded by Nigel Lawson Succeeded by Norman Lamont  Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs In office 24 July 1989 - 26 October 1989 Preceded by Geoffrey Howe Succeeded by Douglas Hurd  Chief Secretary to the Treasury  In office 13 June 1987 - 24 July 1989 Preceded by John MacGregor Succeeded by Norman Lamont  Minister of State for Social Security In office 10 September 1986 - 13 June 1987  Member of Parliament for Huntingdon In office 3 May 1979 - 7 June 2001 Preceded by Robin Corbett, Michael Stewart, Jeremy Thorpe Succeeded by Paul GoodmanAlistair Burt, Mark Field, Chris Grayling, Charles Hendry, David Miliband, George Osborne, Angus Robertson, Hugo Swire, John Thurso, Shaun Woodward

John Major is a British politician. He was leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister from 1990 to 1997.

Post Prime Ministerial Employment

Major was appointed European Chairman of The Carlyle Group in May 2001, and their website quoted him as stating “I have enjoyed my time in politics but it is now time to move on. Carlyle is preeminent as a private equity firm and I have greatly enjoyed working with them over the past few years as a member of the European Advisory Board. The firm's strong commitment to Europe, its global reputation, and its unquestioned integrity were all factors in my decision to take on this role and I very much look forward to expanding my involvement with such a world class organisation.”

Bilderberg

John Major is one of only 4 UK prime ministers not known to have attended a Bilderberg conference since the group began in 1954, and the only one in the last 50 years.

 

A Quote by John Major

Page	Quote
Ditchley	“Ditchley is one of the hidden gems of the Transatlantic relationship... its role as a clearing house for ideas; a forum for debate and discussion; and a magnet for policymakers gives it a unique status. It is the intellectual expression of 'soft power' and a tribute to the pre-eminence of reason and rational debate."”

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Leader of the Conservative Party	“All Tory leaders have surrounded themselves with an inner circle, which has given them ballast and in certain important respects defined their leadership. John Major had a winning fondness for palpable fakes, like Jeffrey Archer and David Mellor; Margaret Thatcher liked hirsute North London entrepreneurs with a ‘can-do’ attitude and heavy jewellery. Michael Howard’s chosen milieu is constructed of dapper, well-spoken men and women, many of whom live within walking distance of one another in west London. Cameron is unmistakably the leader of these Notting Hill Tories, but others include Michael Howard’s political secretary Rachel Whetstone, his speechwriter Ed Vaizey, marketing expert Steve Hilton, policy man Nick Boles, along with the newspaper columnists Edward Heathcoat Amory and his wife Alice Thomson.”	Peter Oborne	19 June 2004

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Lockerbie Bombing and my Reinstatement in HM Diplomatic Service	letter	29 January 1997	Patrick Haseldine	Former diplomat Patrick Haseldine writes to former Prime Minister James Callaghan
Document:Margaret Thatcher Ruined Britain	blog post	30 December 2021	Clifford Thurlow	Margaret Thatcher ruined Britain with her hard-right policies and the five Conservative prime ministers, since her party knifed her in the back the Tory way, have carelessly kicked over the remains. Each has been worse than the last in descending order – John Major, David Cameron, Theresa May, liar Boris Johnson and finally Liz Truss, a puppet with a wooden heart and personal photographer.
Document:Reinstatement in HM Diplomatic Service	Letter	6 January 1997	Patrick Haseldine	A plea for reinstatement in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office by "Thatcher's Whitehall Critic"

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