WI: PM Redwood

i was just wondering what if and how could John Redwood win the 1995 leadership contest for the conservative party and if he did would he become the PM and if so how would a premiership under John Redwood turn out?
 
i was just wondering what if and how could John Redwood win the 1995 leadership contest for the conservative party and if he did would he become the PM and if so how would a premiership under John Redwood turn out?
In office for two years in a strongly divided party before getting destroyed by Labour.
 
Redwood was never going to win the leadership election. His man job was force a second ballot for Michael Portillo to get into the race. Major said to himself he would have resigned as PM if he got lower than 215 votes he got 218 votes. Redwood gets 3 more votes and it changes history.
 
If Redwood's challenge had been more successful it would have provoked a full leadership election which Redwood would have lost. Probably to Portillo.
 
Can you imagine a cabinet made up of Redwood's supporters - or Ward 8 From Broadmoor as they were christened. Gorman, von Marlow, Cash....
 
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