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Article: Pull together now, or it could all fall apart
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 13, 1994
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WERE I John Major, I'd be less concerned about the sniping from
grudge-filled backbenchers than the stony silence from so many
senior colleagues. Michael Heseltine, Kenneth Clarke, Michael
Portillo, Peter Lilley and most of the rest of the Cabinet are not
contractually obliged to wade in to support a slogan dreamt up at
No 10. Some of them didn't much like it in the first place; others
hoped to hijack it; they may all hope that radio silence will
eventually quell the embarrassment it has created. And yet . . .
the Prime Minister is getting less support than he needs. It
clearly worries him: cabinet ministers have been told to get out
and defend the strategy this weekend.
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