John Major reprimanded John Bruton for ‘stormy’ speech in 1995

John Major reprimanded John Bruton for ‘stormy’ speech in 1995

‘I regret that you have spoken in this way,’ British PM John Major wrote to Taoiseach John Bruton in 1995. John Major wrote to John Bruton to reprimand him for a speech in London that would cause “a storm” in 1995 while he was “up to my eyeballs” in New Zealand. The Taoiseach made an address at a dinner in the English capital on Armistice Day, where he said that he and Mr Major had “worked closely together in advancing the peace process”. He sai…