UK News 30-12-1999 Tory Right Wing Is "Suicidal and Sad" Says Major who: John Major what: Attacks Tory right wing when: Yesterday snippet: On Tuesday it was former chancellor Kenneth Clarke and yesterday, in an article for The Spectator, John Major took his turn to grab the headlines by blasting the Tory high echelon. It is "suicidal and it is sad" when right wing MPs fail to understand that times have changed since the Thatcher years, he says. "There are no votes in yesterday and many to be lost if the ghost of government past appears to lead the party by the nose." It`s a direct and hypocritical attack on the leadership of William Hague, says The Sun. "Only last August, the ousted PM promised to show loyalty to Mr Hague because of the way Lady Thatcher wrecked his own Premiership" But Hague`s supporters may not be swayed. "Some of us are getting a bit bored with being lectured on electability by those who were at the head of the party when it went to its worst electoral defeat this century," Shadow Chancellor Francis Maude tells The Express. "It is an absurd proposition that the party has lurched to the Right." [... more]

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