Boris Johnson: John Major’s Evil Twin
7 min readJan 13, 2022
The comparison might, at first, seem odd. Johnson and Major embody completely different conceptions of what the Conservative Party is or should be.
Majorism in some ways presaged Cameronism: liberal on economics; in favour of the UK’s membership of the Single Market; wary, unhappy resignation regarding the EU political project; interested in public sector reform through the introduction of market…