The Independent
If Jeffrey Archer had written about a junior minister's affair with a whip whom the junior minister called B because he was the second man in her life, we would have sneered that it was hardly true to life.
The Mirror
Voters used to complain they didn't know what Mr Major stood for. But they had no doubt on one thing. He believed in the family. He believed in Victorian values. He believed in what he called "back to basics" [...] MPs can't be expected to lead blameless lives. They are human. But the one sin they need never be guilty of is hypocrisy - telling us how to lead our lives while doing the opposite themselves. That is the real scandal of John Major's affair with Edwina Currie.
The Express
It is rare that someone can reach the heights of political power without having a streak of a ruthless streak. But his affair with Edwina Currie shows that he was more than merely ambitious: he was prepared to ruin the careers of a host of colleagues for the very behaviour he was guilty of himself.
The Guardian
For years, Mr Major always laboured under a legendarily grey public image. Now, though, Mr Major is revealed as a flesh-and-blood chancer - indeed almost in the Bill Clinton class.
The Telegraph
[It] explains an awful lot about his premiership. It explains, for a start, why he was always so nervous of the press and obsessed by it, why he dealt so badly with the sex scandals that plagued his term of office [...] It throws dazzling new light on Mr Major's whole demeanour in office, on his style of government. It can be seen in retrospect that he always bore air of a man with a guilty secret, who woke every morning knowing that day's newspapers could finish him off.
The Star
It begs the amazing question: how many more amazing skeletons are their in Major's once-empty closet? And it makes you wonder if Tony Blair has any sordid secrets waiting to emerge. But then for a man who loves himself so much there's only one affair he's likely to have had - with his mirror.