Major Says Cameron’s Conservatives Should Keep Quiet Over Europe
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Former U.K. Prime Minister John Major, whose time in office was dominated by intra-party squabbles over Europe, told today’s Conservative lawmakers to lay off the issue and avoid undermining his successor David Cameron.
Major led the Conservatives from 1990 to 1997, in which time his government nearly fell as opponents of European integration in his own party repeatedly voted against him. Cameron last month tried to pacify the same forces in his party by pledging to renegotiate membership of the EU and hold a referendum by the end of 2017 on whether to stay in the bloc.