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“I was organizing a fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference in October 1994 and I got a message that the Prime Minister would like a meeting. I went to the meeting. It was just me and John Major.What Major said to me was this: "If you were in my shoes, what would you do?". He wasn't asking me what a unionist should do, but what he should do. And I knew that I had to give him a sensible answer.”

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David Trimble, a British politician born on October 15, 1944, played a significant role in Northern Irish politics. He was the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party and, together with John Hume, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998 for their efforts in promoting the peace process in Northern Ireland. more

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