And, after all, both Margaret Thatcher's and John Major's governments also had plenty of kilts round the cabinet table.
And I think that's the major story, and that's the major lesson from what happened to him.
During that time, he held a number of junior minister's posts in John Major's government, including a spell under William Hague at the Welsh Office.
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With the Tories gripped by ideological struggle over the prospect of British membership of the single European currency, many businessmen feel more comfortable with Mr Blair's stated aim (which matched John Major's, but not that of many of his Conservative colleagues) of treating euro-membership as a practical decision to be taken on economic grounds.
But in the multi-billion-dollar, high-stakes world of U.S. major-league sports -- and even at major U.S. colleges -- it would doubtless be seen as foolhardy to take a chance on using that name.
Not directly, for Europe ranks quite low on voters' lists of concerns and Labour's policy towards it is anyway almost identical to Mr Major's.
The departure of her former boss, Michael Howard, along with Sir Norman Fowler and Gillian Shephard, emphasises that this is now Mr Hague's own team and not just a bunch of stragglers from John Major's defeated army.
So far, the Blair team's occasional fumblings are as nothing to the farce seen in the final days of John Major's Conservative administration.
Manchester United is the first major sports team to launch an IPO in the U.S. since Major League Baseball's Cleveland Indians did it back in 1998, according to Dealogic.
Meralco says it is not interested in the NPC's 230-kilovolt main transmission line, but just in the 115-kv subsidiary link to the southern Luzon provinces of Cavite and Laguna, where the country's major industries - Meralco's customers - are situated.
It is gaining from the rising trade between the U.S and Mexico, as it is the only major U.S. railroad to connect to all six major trade junctions with Mexico.
In January 1993, John Major's government enacted the British Coal and British Rail (Transfer Proposals) Act 1993.
Even with Friday's decline, the major U.S. stock benchmarks finished the week with gains.
And too many of the Tory shadows are mired in the failures of John Major's government.
But what about Kenneth Clarke, former Tory chancellor and the leading europhile in Mr Major's government?
Mr Major's decision reduced the heat on Labour, just as it was starting to sweat.
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In the early 1990s, John Major's Tory cabinet briefly discussed abolishing local councils altogether.
Mr Major's electoral triumph won him an overall parliamentary majority of only 21 seats.
Comparisons are being drawn with the worst days of John Major's reign as Tory leader.
Mr Trippier, you will probably not recall, was a junior minister in Mr Major's government.
John Major's claim that signing it would eventually cost Britain 500, 000 jobs is alarmist.
But with this now in question, he runs some risk of imitating Mr Major's fate here too.
Whereas republicans in 1995 bitterly condemned John Major's government, from the outset Tony Blair was regarded more positively.
True, Mr Blair is to end Mr Major's opt-out from Maastricht's social chapter, which produces common workplace legislation.
Mr Mates stepped down from John Major's government in 1993 over his links with fugitive tycoon Asil Nadir.
The public reaction to this display of assumed victory sent Labour to a fourth defeat against John Major's Tories.
And Norman Lamont, Lord Lamont, John Major's chancellor of the exchequer, young Norman.
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This put an unhappy gloss on Mr Major's repeated claim that his ambition was to turn have-nots into haves.
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That seems to have been the lesson that Tony Blair drew from the incessant culling in John Major's sleaze-prone government.
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