JOHN MAJOR is the most unpopular prime minister since records began and right on course to lose the Christchurch by-election. Without doubt this government is seen as extremely weak; but given the total lack of forceful opposition from Labour, it is able to sail right ahead with the most damaging attacks on the working class.
Pensions and unemployment benefit, together with the NHS, were the absolute foundation stones of the welfare state. Now the Tories have them in their gunsights.
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Combined with the huge tax increases which Chancellor Clarke will introduce in the autumn budget, this amounts to a further devastating degradation of the living standards of the poorest sections of the working class. THE REPORT of the Royal John Redwood But behind these attacks, and behind the unpopularity of the government, is something a bit more calculated and sinister than the normal routine of Tory attacks. For this Tory cabinet is not united behind John Major, but bitterly divided.
The Michael Mates affair showed this strongly. A whole section of the Tory Party wanted to get Mates becan't afford expensive lawMine's campaign manager. Secretary Michael Howard. Given the background to