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Article: Major's fury over Black Wednesday slur; Outraged Tories reveal they did NOT block the release of Treasury papers and blame Campbell for smear campaign.
- Article from:
- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 6, 2005
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JOHN MAJOR yesterday hit out at Tony Blair's spin doctor Alastair Campbell over a crude attempt to smear him by claiming he tried to hide the truth about Black Wednesday in 1992.
The former Prime Minister criticised Mr Campbell and New Labour 'spin, smear and sleaze' after The Times newspaper claimed that Mr Major tried to block moves under the Freedom of Information Act to release new details about Black Wednesday, when Sterling crashed out of Europe's Exchange Rate Mechanism.
Outraged, Mr Major protested to the newspaper-By Simon Walters POLITICAL EDITOR after its bogus report, planted by the Labour Party and rejected by most other newspapers, was shown to be ...