Premiership of John Major
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John Major's term as the prime minister of the United Kingdom began on 28 November 1990 when he accepted an invitation of Queen Elizabeth II to form a government, succeeding Margaret Thatcher, and ended on 2 May 1997 following the Conservative Party's defeat in the 1997 general election by the Labour Party, led by Tony Blair. While serving as prime minister, Major also served as the first lord of the treasury, the minister for the civil service and the Leader of the Conservative Party.
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Major in 1995
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Major with President George H. W. Bush at Camp David in 1992.
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Major with President Bill Clinton at the White House Solarium in 1994.
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President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister John Major.jpg
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President George H. W. Bush and Prime Minister John Major.jpg
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John Major's term as the prime minister of the United Kingdom began on 28 November 1990 when he accepted an invitation of Queen Elizabeth II to form a government, succeeding Margaret Thatcher, and ended on 2 May 1997 following the Conservative Party's defeat in the 1997 general election by the Labour Party, led by Tony Blair. While serving as prime minister, Major also served as the first lord of the treasury, the minister for the civil service and the Leader of the Conservative Party. After Thatcher resigned as prime minister following a challenge to her leadership, Major entered the second stage of the contest to replace her and emerged victorious, becoming prime minister. Major went on to lead the Conservative Party to a fourth consecutive electoral victory at the 1992 election, the only election he won during his seven-year-premiership. Although the Conservatives lost 40 seats, they won over 14 million votes, which remains to this day a record for any British political party. As prime minister, Major created the Citizen's Charter, removed the Poll Tax and replaced it with the Council Tax, committed British troops to the Gulf War, took charge of the UK's negotiations over the Maastricht Treaty of the European Union (EU), led the country during the early 1990s economic crisis, withdrew the pound from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (a day which came to be known as Black Wednesday), promoted the socially conservative back to basics campaign, passed further reforms to education and criminal justice, privatised the railways and coal industry, and took steps to encourage peace in Northern Ireland. Internal Conservative Party divisions on the EU, a number of scandals involving Conservative MPs (widely known as "sleaze"), and questions about his economic credibility are seen as the main factors that led Major to resign as party leader in June 1995. However, he sought reelection as Conservative leader and was comfortably re-elected. Notwithstanding, public opinion of his leadership was poor, both before and after. By December 1996, the Government had lost its majority in the House of Commons due to a series of by-election defeats and an MP crossing the floor. At the 1997 election, the Labour Party inflicted one of the largest electoral defeats upon the Conservative Party, resulting in a Labour government ending 18 years of Conservative rule. After being succeeded as prime minister by Blair, Major subsequently resigned as Conservative leader and was succeeded by William Hague.
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