major as a leader

Question 2

view on thatcher

Answer 2

major was a thatcherite

Question 3

previous positions

Answer 3

held many ministerial positions

BUT did not hold them long enough to make a lasting impressions

Question 4

party divisions under major

Answer 4

he wanted to unify the party

ongoing hostility to hestletine

people wanted to take revenge against people who had ‘betrayed maggie’

Question 5

major and foreign affairs

Answer 5

successful conclusion of 1st gulf war in 1991

wanted to see britain at the ‘heart of europe’

Question 6

poll tax

Answer 6

scrapping the tax would divide the party

1991 abandoned for new council tax

allowed major to get away from an unpopular policy

Question 7

opinion polls 1992

Answer 7

conservative - 29%
labour - 41%

swung back to conservatives at the end of the campaign

Question 8

attitudes in 1992 campaign

Answer 8

conservative - upbeat and optomistic
labour - overly confident

Question 9

labour position 1992

Answer 9

inability to win an election

too divided and lacked government experience

experience of 80s still too strong

had not reformed enough

Question 10

conservative positon 1992

Answer 10

good campaign

major had a lot of respect for his old fashioned ‘soap box’ politics

still seen as the party that could get the country out of mess