Managers’ Power
June 11th, 1993
A letter to the Daily Telegraph by Mrs Gillian Bush, which was published on 11th June 1993.
“The Government listens too much to the pollsters and the party managers”, said Mr Lamont in his resignation speech (report, June 10th). I submit that the Government, in fact, ignores the pollsters and only listens to the party managers.
If Mr Major had adjusted government policy in line with the results of polls and public opinion, he would now have allowed a free vote on the Maastricht Treaty in the House of Commons, or at the very least permitted a referendum.