Peter Oborne

There are echoes everywhere of the final days of John Major’s government

There are echoes everywhere of the final days of John Major's government

issue 21 June 2003

I was unable to cope when I joined the parliamentary lobby as a reporter for the London Evening Standard more than ten years ago. I faced two problems, both of them disastrous. The first was that I did not know how to recognise a political story. A grand set-piece – the sacking of a minister, or the fall of a government – was obvious enough to anyone.

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