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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.
The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  February 6, 2005 ;     700+ words ......truth about Black Wednesday in 1992. The former Prime Minister criticised Mr...details about Black Wednesday, when Sterling...request for the Black Wednesday papers? 'Who...by a former Prime Minister, a former Chancellor...the present Prime ...

Article: 'Black Wednesday' was no storm out of the blue
The Scotsman;  April 28, 2006 ;     700+ words ...'BLACK Wednesday"; "Government...support of the Prime Minister, though it would...country that the Prime Minister's problems may...ministries. "Black Wednesday" was no storm...Cabinet or the Prime Minister if the public...Context matters. "Black ...

Article: Black Wednesday departure from ERM in 1992 cost Britain pounds 3. 3bn.(News)
Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  February 10, 2005 ;     334 words ......European Exchange Rate Mechanism on ``Black Wednesday'' in 1992 cost the country pounds...Act. John Major and Lord Lamont - Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer...documents, which they said showed Black Wednesday was far less costly to the UK than...internal documents on ...

Article: Economy climbs back out of black Wednesday recession
Lincolnshire Echo;  April 22, 2008 ;     174 words ......Chancellor Norman Lamont. Prime minister John Major called on industry...on what became known as Black Wednesday. The British economy began...never fully recovered from Black Wednesday. A month after announcing...office, but not in power." Black Wednesday played an ...

Article: VOA NEWS: SCANDALS INVOLVING BLAIR'S CABINET MEMBERS TURN HIS DAY INTO 'BLACK WEDNESDAY'
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 27, 2006 ;     563 words ......controversy on what the British media are calling the prime minister's "Black Wednesday." The day began with an admission by Mr. Blair's...Blair spokesman was forced to respond, saying the prime minister stands behind Prescott. Then, a few hours ...

Article: Black Wednesday
A Dictionary of Finance and Banking;      59 words ...Black Wednesday Wednesday 16 September 1992, when sterling left the Exchange Rate...against the Deutschmark. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and the prime minister, having previously described this measure as ‘a betrayal of...

Article: Worrying echoes of John Major and Black Wednesday
The Independent - London;  November 24, 2007 ;     700+ words ......decided to test the theory. When Prime Minister Major was in trouble, I once rang...dangerous crisis of confidence, that the Prime Minister must show strong leadership and...hell. The pivotal event then was Black Wednesday, when Britain was forced out of...combination, will be Mr ...

Article: This week will come to define the final, ghastly days of Blair just as Black Wednesday symbolised John Major.(Column)
The Daily Mail (London, England);  December 16, 2006 ;     700+ words ......expert Dr David Kelly, the Prime Minister's allies explicitly stated...the summer, the Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, was caught...in the same way that Black Wednesday defined John Major. It...first time that a serving Prime Minister has ever been ...

Article: Election 2001: After an uninspiring start, the antics of Black Wednesday II - slow-handclapping, heckling and that egg - topped the week
Scotland on Sunday;  May 20, 2001 ;     700+ words ......excited about. And then it happened: Black Wednesday II! The Home Secretary is slow-handclapped...seem - from the Women's Institute. The Prime Minister is heckled for three minutes on health...covering and cogitating on the Deputy Prime Minister's extemporisation. And from the ...

Article: The campaign for sterling: Black Wednesday.
The Economist (US);  January 9, 1993 ;     700+ words ......less than a week before Black Wednesday, John Major's cabinet...the summer break. The prime minister congratulated Norman...ignorance was echoed on Black Wednesday itself. Mr Major and...Ministers, especially the prime minister, believed in the ERM...until the very eve ...

Article: The ERM legacy;How the men behind Black Wednesday fiasco have prospered since 1992; Thousands suffered financial meltdown. But, guess what, the architects of the fiasco have prospered;Ten years after Britain's exit from the Exchange Rate Mechanism, a look at the key players.
The Daily Mail (London, England);  September 17, 2002 ;     700+ words ......political history - Black Wednesday. It was the day the...prop up the pound. Black Wednesday itself was a day of...characters. John Major Then: Prime Minister on Black Wednesday. According to Norman...afterwards, he took over as Prime Minister, where he ...

Article: Radical Thursday after Blair's Black Wednesday.
The Evening Standard (London, England);  November 3, 2005 ;     507 words ......Cabinet that he would push ahead with radical reform. The Prime Minister tried to shrug off David Blunkett's resignation and his...as even ministers dubbed yesterday's events Tony's own Black Wednesday , MPs were predicting that Mr Blair could now be forced...Marshall-Andrews, the MP who led the ...

Article: labour is at lowest ebb since black Wednesday.
The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  September 10, 2006 ;     451 words ......popular vote since before Black Wednesday in 1992 - the financial...believe he would be a worse Prime Minister than Tony Blair. And, of...prefer Mr Cameron to be Prime Minister, while only 33 per cent...one in three reckons the Prime Minister should continue in office...

Article: Give Cameron his chance ; Before harking back to Black Wednesday, high interest rates, repossessed homes etc. Peter Crook (letter, November 21) should consider carefully the dire, and worsening condition of the country today - and predicted to become considerably more serious than the early 90s world recession - caused in no small part by the man he considers our "globally" respected Prime Minister.
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  December 2, 2008 ;     163 words ...Before harking back to Black Wednesday, high interest rates, repossessed homes etc. Peter Crook...small part by the man he considers our "globally" respected Prime Minister. It is obvious to me that Mr Crook has been brainwashed by...