John Major
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State papers: Northern Ireland Office’s paperwork irked 10 Downing Street official
- Politics
- December 28, 2018, 01:03
Sometimes it just got too much. An exasperated senior civil servant from 10 Downing Street wrote a late-night pleading letter to his colleagues at the(...)

Prospect of Albert Reynolds lecture met with ‘deep gloom’ by British
- Politics
- December 28, 2018, 01:01
An announcement that former taoiseach Albert Reynolds was to start a lecture tour after he left office was met with “deep gloom” by a British diplomat(...)

Major was furious with Clinton for granting Adams a visa
- Politics
- December 28, 2018, 01:00
Former UK prime minister John Major was so furious with Bill Clinton over the US government’s decision to grant Gerry Adams a travel visa in 1994, he (...)

State papers: UK PM unconvinced IRA ended armed campaign after ceasefire
- Politics
- December 28, 2018, 01:00
UK prime minister John Major remained unconvinced that the IRA had permanently ended its armed campaign following the ceasefire in 1994, according to (...)

After Brexit, Ireland can form part of new ‘grit in the oyster’
- Economy
- December 13, 2018, 05:55
Contrariness was the hallmark of the UK’s sometimes fractious relationship with the EU long before the Brexit vote. And it was never something for whi(...)

Decent middle England should reassert itself over Brexit
- Opinion
- December 13, 2018, 05:00
There is a strange symmetry between the election of the First Dáil 100 years ago this week and the humiliating antics of the House of Commons, “the mo(...)

If May loses, Brexit could be delayed or even abandoned
- UK
- December 12, 2018
Theresa May’s defiant statement outside 10 Downing Street, promising to fight “with everything I’ve got” to keep her job, set out the case she will ma(...)

UK needs to revoke article 50 application immediately – John Major
- UK
- December 11, 2018, 12:10
Former British prime minister John Major has called for Brexit to be halted to create time to find a way through the United Kingdom’s political crisis(...)

John Major decries ‘breathtaking ignorance’ shown in Brexit debate
- Politics
- December 10, 2018, 20:24
Former UK prime minister Sir John Major has criticised the “breathtaking ignorance” unionist leaders and Eurosceptics have shown over the Irish border(...)

Andy Serkis revives Gollum to ridicule Theresa May’s Brexit deal
- Film
- December 10, 2018
Andy Serkis almost certainly qualifies as a British National Treasure. He now belongs with John Major’s “warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog love(...)