Major was arguably the second best PM since Thatcher in retrospect, after Blair. He won the Gulf War with an international coalition, began the NI peace process and left a balanced budget and low inf… (View Post)

May actually did the hard work to get a deal with the EU which respected the Vote Leave platform of leaving the EU, EEA and customs union and ending free movement. Boris largely copied and pasted tha… (View Post)

Plus willingness to work hard. Hitler also had most of those qualities, just to point out, doesn't necessarily mean you will lead in the right direction (View Post)

No a referendum in 1996 would have been lost by the government badly and ripped his party apart in a divisive Portillo v Heseltine civil war to replace Major (View Post)

Major got the opt out from the single currency and social chapter too, he sensibly unlike Cameron avoided holding referendums as he recognised that they are unpredictable, divisive, populist and can … (View Post)