The road to Brexit — 30 years since the Maastricht Treaty
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The War of the Fleas
Een duncan smith says that, for the rebels, the ends ultimately justified the means. In July 93, after months of parliamentary attrition, robertson and the rebels concocted what journalists quickly nicknamed the semtax amendment. The first vote was dramatically tied, with speaker betty boothroy delivering her casting vote in the government's favour as is parliamentary tradition. But on the second vote, the tory rebels turned out in false and major was defeated, plunging his government into full blown crisis.
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