JOHN Major at once set to work on his new cabinet, after being installed as Britain's youngest Prime Minister this century.
And Home Secretary David Waddington, MP for Ribble Valley and a convinced supporter of capital punishment, was one of the first victims.
He was summoned to Downing Street early this morning, but after the consultation refused to say whether he had been sacked.
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