John Major succeeded Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister, but his initial popularity soon faded with the devaluation of the sterling, his achievement at Maastricht which brought division to his party and he oversaw the longest recession since WW2.
Robert Taylor, Jacques Jaussaud, Robert (Formerly Reader in Modern Chinese Studies and Director of the Centre for Chinese Studies at the University of Sheffield) Taylor, Jacques (Universite de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour France) Jaussaud