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The Prime Ministerial Tenure of John Major: a failure of leadership? The rationale for evaluating John Major's leadership of the Conservative Party in the 1992-1997 period revolves around a desire to examine the factors that contributed to the electoral meltdown of the Conservative Party in the 1997 election. The project revolves around attempting to substantiate the following hypothesis: that under the leadership of John Major the Conservative Party lost the characteristics of a party of government. The project will seek to answer this question by firstly looking at the relationship between the Conservative Party and the electorate in terms of explaining the excellent record that the party has in post-war electoral politics, and will then proceed to outline Philip Norton's 'party of government' model (which shall be used as a framework for this project) on a theoretical basis, consisting of four components: governing competence, party unity, strong leadership and public service. Norton...

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