“I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.”

— John Major

Nicholas Wood and Michael Prescott, "Major threatens general election if he fails to win Maastricht vote", Sunday Times, 25 October 1992.
1990s, 1992

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