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Up for sale"UK Prime Minister" John Major Hand Signed 5X3.5 Picture Card.This item is authenticated By Todd Mueller Autographs and comes with their certificate of authenticity.

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Sir John MajorKGCH(born 29 March 1943) is a British politician who served asPrime Minister of the United KingdomandLeader of the Conservative Partyfrom 1990 to 1997. He served in theThatcher governmentfrom 1987 to 1990 asChief Secretary to the Treasury,Foreign SecretaryandChancellor of the Exchequer, and wasMember of Parliament(MP) forHuntingdon, formerlyHuntingdonshire, from 1979 to 2001. Major was born inSt Helier, London. Leaving school in 1959 with threeO-levels, after working a variety of jobs and enduring a period of unemployment, Major established a career atStandard Bank. He was elected as a councillor inLambeth, and was later an MP at the1979 general election. He initially served as aParliamentary Private Secretaryand anassistant whipbefore joining the government asa minister. Following the1987 election, he was promoted to theCabinetbyMargaret Thatcheras Chief Secretary to the Treasury. He was later moved to become foreign secretary in July 1989, before becoming chancellor of the Exchequer just three months later followingNigel Lawson's abrupt resignation. As chancellor, he presented the 1990 Budget, the first to be aired on television. In November 1990, after Thatcher resigned following achallenge to her leadershipbyMichael Heseltine, Major entered the second stage of the contest and emerged victorious; he was appointed prime minister on 28 November. In his first months in office, he launched theCitizen's Charter, replaced the unpopularCommunity Charge(known as the "poll tax") withCouncil Tax, committed British troops to theGulf War, and negotiated theEuropean Union'sMaastricht Treaty.[1]Despite a severe recession, Major went on to lead the Conservative Party to a fourth consecutive electoral victory at the1992 election, winning over 14million votes, which remains to this day a record for a British political party, although with a reduced majority in the House of Commons. Just months later, Major was forced to withdraw thepound sterlingfrom theEuropean Exchange Rate Mechanism(ERM) on 16 September 1992, a day which came to be known asBlack Wednesday. This led to a loss of confidence in Major's economic credibility, and he was never again able to achieve a lead in opinion polls. Despite a dwindling majority, Major passed further reforms to education andcriminal justice,privatised British Railand the coal industry, and signed theDowning Street Declaration, reinvigorating theNorthern Ireland peace process, which would eventually help lead to theGood Friday Agreement. By 1995, splits over EU policy and the loss of numerous MPs to a series of sexual and financial scandals (widely known as "sleaze") led Major to resign as party leader in June, challenging his critics to either back him or challenge him; he was duly challenged byJohn Redwoodbut was easily re-elected. This did not lead to an improvement in his political standing, and by December 1996, the Government had lost its majority in the House of Commons.At the1997 election, after the Conservatives had been in power for 18 years, Major lost toTony Blair'sLabour Partyin one of the largest electoral defeats since the1832 Great Reform Act. Major resigned as Leader of the Conservative Party following the defeat and was succeeded byWilliam Hague. Major retired from the House of Commons at the2001 election, and has since pursued his interests in business and charity. While early assessments of his time in office saw him characterised as being a weak and unassertive leader, a reappraisal in following years saw many note his successes in the Northern Irish peace process, restoring economic growth, reforming the public sector, boosting the profile of arts and sports, and preserving British influence on the international stage.[nb 1]SinceThatcher's deathin 2013, he has been both the oldest and earliest-serving of all the UK's living former prime ministers.