The Labour PM was already in decline, led a divided Cabinet, had only a tiny majority and was frequently distracted.
WITH a tiny majority and what could prove fleeting co-operation from irascible backbenchers, David Cameron is anxious to move quickly in his second term.
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The trouble is, as Mr Major showed, that it is impossible to keep out of trouble by doing nothing if you have a tiny majority and a group of unco-operative legislators running amok.
The Essex town's parliamentary seat is held by the Tories by a tiny majority – and Ed Miliband will have no chance of making it to Downing Street unless he wins there.
Will the short-term difficulties of a tiny majority and a referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union trump the medium-term benefits of supporting the thriving green economy and cutting carbon emissions?
A14 Schröder Wins in Germany Chancellor Gerhard Schröder clung to power after Germany's elections, but with a tiny majority and a great debt to his coalition partner, the Greens, and their leader, Joschka Fischer, the foreign minister and the most popular politician in Germany.
"What we don't want is some close-run election with some government being elected with a tiny majority and arguments breaking out as to whether various things are being carried by the votes of people from constituencies that aren't faintly affected".
