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Kavanagh, The British General Election of 1992 (Macmillan, 1992), 20–1. 10 A. Sked and C. Cook, Post-war Britain 1945–1992 (Penguin, 1993), p. 561. 11 Mr Major used stronger, rather more industrial, language than the word ‘flipping’. 12 UK Presidency of the EC (Foreign Office Publication, 1992), p. 3. , p. 20. 14 See C. Grant, Delors (Nicholas Brealey Publications, 1994), p. 170. 15 Conservative Party manifesto, 1992. 16 M. Thatcher, Downing Street Years (HarperCollins, 1993), pp. 720–1. 17 N. Lawson, The View from No.

To many grassroots Conservatives this was an extraordinary and extreme reaction to the Eurosceptic rebels, who were transformed into instant martyrs. 29 The Whip was restored six months later as a result of the fact that they toured the television and radio studios of Britain, and were deluged with mail from Conservatives who regarded them as heroes. Some of the whipless rebels became better known to the general public than many members of John Major’s Cabinet who were, arguably, household names only in their own households.

7 M. Thatcher, The Path to Power (HarperCollins, 1995), p. 483. 8 Whether this opt-out was essentially negotiated by Major or by Chancellor Norman Lamont is discussed in ‘The Poisoned Chalice’, BBC2, 30/5/96. E. Butler and D. Kavanagh, The British General Election of 1992 (Macmillan, 1992), 20–1. 10 A. Sked and C. Cook, Post-war Britain 1945–1992 (Penguin, 1993), p. 561. 11 Mr Major used stronger, rather more industrial, language than the word ‘flipping’. 12 UK Presidency of the EC (Foreign Office Publication, 1992), p.

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