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Impressionist Rory Bremner 'saved Sir John Major's bacon' amid MPs revolt
Documents from the National Archives tell how Bremner impersonated the then-PM when he phoned Eurosceptic Tory MPs in 1993, asking for their support.
They had planned to challenge Sir John's leadership at the time of the Conservative conference in Blackpool.
But the lead rebel thought it was the PM phoning and abandoned the revolt.
...
Sir Richard was insistent it had been the real prime minister. According to an official note of their conversation, Sir Richard told the cabinet secretary that the call had "saved [Sir John's] bacon".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55477424
They had planned to challenge Sir John's leadership at the time of the Conservative conference in Blackpool.
But the lead rebel thought it was the PM phoning and abandoned the revolt.
...
Sir Richard was insistent it had been the real prime minister. According to an official note of their conversation, Sir Richard told the cabinet secretary that the call had "saved [Sir John's] bacon".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55477424
The Cabinet Secretary pressured Channel 4 into never broadcasting the calls, and to ask for permission before doing calls like that again.
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