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What are the highlights of John Major's career as Prime Minister in the early 1990s?

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Diplomatic and respected, even by the opposition, he moderated the Thatcher government's controversial poll tax and its opposition to greater integration into the European Community (now the European Union ). He provided military support to the United States in the Persian Gulf War (1991).

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