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‘Bad luck will be engraved on our tombstone’ was the anticipatory verdict of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, two days after John Major announced the date of the 1997 general election. Kenneth Clarke was recalling how John Major’s personal mandate on 9 April 1992 had been wasted; for virtually the whole parliament the Conservative government had been on the defensive.
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Butler, D., Kavanagh, D. (1997). Conservative Troubles. In: The British General Election of 1997. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26040-9_2
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