1993 and all that …

First off, as someone probably hasn’t ever said, history is just the same things happening with different people. So a Conservative government led by a weak Prime Minister who had come to power on the back of an internal Tory election seemed to be on the brink of losing office and led a party obsessed with, and riven by, divisions on Europe. Replace Brexit with Maastricht and you get the drift. But good news was that the “longest recession since the 1930s” was officially over and the economy grew by 0.2% in the first three months of the year. Meanwhile, unemployment hit three million and the Bank of England lowered interest rates to 6% in January, the lowest they’d been since 1978. It was all going swimmingly. And then in October, John Major introduced his Back to Basics campaign. Years later it would emerge he was also having an affair with Edwina Currie at the time. Which gave Back to Basics a new meaning. Northern Ireland dominated the headlines with the IRA responsible for two massive bombs in Warrington and Bishopsgate in the City of London. In December, the UK and Irish governments signed the Downing Street Declaration, a precursor of the Good Friday Agreement. Then as now, the future of the NHS was a cause for debate as waiting lists hit one million for the first time. Two horrific murders shocked the nation; Toddler James Bulger was killed by two children on Merseyside and teenager Stephen Lawrence was murdered for being Black in south London. Royal ne...
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