
Declaración pública tras los pobres resultados en las elecciones locales del 5 de mayo de 1995. Se comentó la confusión entre metáforas de Major.
Original: «We will do precisely what the British nation has done all through its history when it had its back to the wall — turn round and fight for the things it believes in, and that is what I shall do».
Fuente: Daily Report. West Europe. Colaborador United States. Foreign Broadcast Information Service. Editorial The Service, 1995, p. 13.]
Fuente: Michael White, Patrick Wintour, "Hanley set to carry the can as defiant Major vows to fight on", The Guardian, 6 de mayo de 1995.