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Lawson left in 1995 to become editor of The Sunday Telegraph, and was replaced by a deputy editor of the same newspaper, Frank Johnson.

After the 1997 election, Johnson averted a decline in The Spectator ’ s sales by recruiting " New Labour contributors ", and shifting the magazine ’ s direction slightly away from politics.

In 1996 the paper featured an interview with The Spice Girls, in which the band members gave their " Euro-sceptic and generally anti-labour " views on politics.

Shortly before her death Diana, Princess of Wales was depicted on the magazine ’ s cover as the figurehead of Mohamed Al-Fayed ’ s boat, the Jonikal.