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In the wake of the ousting of [[Margaret Thatcher]], '''John Major''' took charge of the Conservative party and its rapidly declining popularity. He managed to get a surprise win in the 1992 general election - popularly attributed to him giving a speech on a literal soapbox - before losing the next one in 1997. He is usually thought of as the man who filled space between Thatcher and Blair. Caricatures tended to depict him as a rather boring, grey little man, an image not particularly helped by his large glasses, tendency to dress in grey and his general tendency to come across as being rather dull.

In 2002 a revelation broke out that he had had an adulterous affair with minister Edwina Currie; this was greeted with universal incredulity by the British media, as they couldn't conceive of him doing something so interesting. But then Major was perhaps the only PM history who managed to make being attacked in Ten Downing Street by the IRA with mortar bombs from a nearby rooftop 'unmemorable'.

 

* Along with [[Margaret Thatcher]], he was a regular character on the British puppet comedy series ''[[Spitting Image]]''. At first, he had a radar dish on his head to pick up orders from Thatcher; this was dropped later for a puppet depicted in shades of grey.

** The real kicker is that in an attempt to make Major a more interesting character, they invented an affair between him and Virginia Bottomley. Come 2002, [[Hilarious in Hindsight|there was a brand new context to those gags]], even though they could've been a bit more accurate with their prescience...