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oct 19, 1989 - October 1989: John Major made Chancellor

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Thatcher promotes her foreign minister to the job after a long-running feud with his predecessor, Nigel Lawson. The Conservatives are deeply divided at this point over Europe and, as inflation rises, the newspapers start to turn. Labour has "turned a corner", says Bell.

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oct 19, 1989
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~ 36 years ago