John Major

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A letter from Downing Street to the Northern Ireland Office stated that John Major ‘would certainly not wish the government make a formal expression of regret’. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA Wire

Former British prime minister John Major disagreed with his secretary of state for Northern Ireland that there should be any public admission of “regr(...)

Taoiseach John Bruton and British prime minister John Major at Downing Street on November 28th, 1995. Photograph: Sean Dempsey/Pool/Reuters

Former British prime minister John Major was “reluctant” to talk to then taoiseach John Bruton on the phone because their private conversations were a(...)

 Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams gives his view of the Framework Document, February 22, 1995. Photograph: Russell Boyce/Reuters

Former British prime minister John Major saw Gerry Adams as a “clever little devil”, newly declassified files show. A private memo in February 1997, (...)

SDLP leader John Hume with party colleague Seamus Mallon. Hume was concerned that the British government, particularly in the run-up to the Westminster general election, would be ‘unable to engineer forward movement’. File photograph: Reuters

A behind-the-scenes initiative by SDLP leader John Hume to attempt to restore the 1994 IRA ceasefire, using the medium of Protestant Church leaders, i(...)

Irish emigrants embarking for America at Waterloo Docks, Liverpool, in 1850. Photograph: Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images

The extent of British government discomfort at commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Irish Famine is revealed in previously confidential files re(...)

Former prime minister Tony Blair: Britain has yet to come to terms with the challenge presented by the loss of global influence Brexit involves. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

Micheál Martin’s hastily deleted tweet on Tuesday about a conversation with Joe Biden that had yet to happen sapped some of the joy from the fact that(...)

British  prime minister Boris Johnson during a media briefing in Downing Street on Monday on coronavirus. Photograph:   PA Photo

The Internal Market Bill’s treaty-breaking clauses, intended to give Britain more leverage in negotiations with the EU, have instead become a trap tha(...)

US election: Are we ready for Joe Biden? Or would we miss Donald Trump? Photograph: Angela Weiss/Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty

As I lay me down to sleep I pray to God my soul to keep And if Trump’s re-elected before I wake I pray to God that news is fake Possibly for the next(...)

Ian Botham (right) of England hits a four off Geoffrey Lawson of Australia during the Third Ashes Test match at Headingley in Leeds, England. England won the match by 18 runs. Photograph: Adrian Murrell/Allsport

In the course of his career as a caddy Ricci Roberts has worked with big names, among them Darren Clarke, Lee Westwood, Adam Scott, Graeme McDowell an(...)

British prime minister Boris Johnson listens as former Labour leader Ed Miliband speaks in the debate on the Internal Market Bill in the House of Commons on Monday. Photograph: PRU/AFP via Getty Images

It is unusual for a prime minister to open a debate on the second reading of a bill in the House of Commons and Boris Johnson’s last-minute decision t(...)

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