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Every prime minister has their "Suez": David Cameron: losing the EU referendum Gordon Brown: The financial crisis Tony Blair: Iraq John Major: Black Wednesd
by parenthesis 10y ago
Every prime minister has their "Suez":
David Cameron: losing the EU referendum
Gordon Brown: The financial crisis
Tony Blair: Iraq
John Major: Black Wednesday; Tory party "sleaze"
Margaret Thatcher: The poll tax
James Callaghan: The Winter of Discontent
… etc.
- danieltillett 10y agoAll political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs. Enoch Powell