Heard it on the news just before I tuned in to the Mudcat. Had to laugh out loud when they seriously said it might have changed the face of British politics if the affair had become public knowledge before 1990 as John Major wouldn't have been acceptable as Maggie's successor! B...s! As far as I've gathered from news reports over the years, extramarital affairs have been what the Tory male politicians were best at - not politics.