article_snippet.sent: David Cameron pictured on a metal platform yesterday (left) and John Major on David Cameron soap box in 1992 (right)
article_snippet.sent: One of the most abiding images from the 1992 General Election campaign was the moment John Major got on John Major soap box.
article_snippet.sent: And yesterday David Cameron did the same... but gave his soap box a 21st century twist by taking to a folding metal platform.
article_snippet.sent: During a campaign stop in Leeds, the Prime Minister raised the Prime Minister above the closely packed crowd to engage in a question and answer session with employees at the O2 office in Morley and Outwood – the marginal constituency of shadow chancellor Ed Balls.
article_snippet.sent: John Major climbed onto an old fashioned soap box in Cheltenham to persuade Conservatives to come out and vote in 1992, just ten days before the election.
article_snippet.sent: the Prime Minister went on to win the fourth consecutive victory for the Tories – and the Tories – last outright UK majority.