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Article: Major battles anti-Europe tide
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 30, 1994
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CASTING himself as a "Euro-realist", John Major attempted
yesterday to call a halt to the growing view among Conservative MPs
that the Government should contemplate taking Britain out of the
European Union.
Douglas Hurd underlined the concern in the Tory hierarchy about
the new mood of EU rejection in the party. The Foreign Secretary
told Tory supporters in the West Country that anyone seeking to
reverse the 1972 referendum vote to take Britain into the European
Community was "out of touch with reality".
Mr Major, whose leadership could face a fresh crisis after the
polls on 9 June, carefully avoided alienating the party's new EU-
doubters, who claim they are in the majority and on whose ...