1995 Conservative Party leadership election
The 1995 Conservative Party leadership election was initiated when the incumbent leader and prime minister, John Major, resigned as Conservative leader on 22 June 1995, in order to face a leadership challenge from his critics within the party. On 4 July 1995, he was re-elected, beating the only other candidate, the former Secretary of State for Wales, John Redwood.
Image: Major PM full (cropped)
Image: Official portrait of Rt Hon John Redwood MP crop 2
Sir John Major is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997. He previously held Cabinet positions under prime minister Margaret Thatcher, his last as chancellor of the Exchequer from 1989 to 1990. Major was Member of Parliament (MP) for Huntingdon, formerly Huntingdonshire, from 1979 to 2001. Since stepping down as an MP in 2001, Major has focused on writing and his business, sporting and charity work, and has occasionally commented on political developments in the role of an elder statesman.
Major in 1995
St Matthew's Church, Brixton where John and Norma Major married in 1970
A demonstration against the deployment of cruise missiles at RAF Molesworth in the early 1980s
Prime Minister John Major and President Bill Clinton deliver press statements outside Downing Street in 1995
