(Brexit) Issue of Europe runs like 'fault line through Conservative Party'

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Issue of Europe runs like 'fault line through Conservative Party'
Alasdair Soussi


October 1985: British prime minister Margaret Thatcher looking pensive at the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool, England [Hulton Archive/Getty Images]

It was October 30, 1990, and Margaret Thatcher was on her feet at the despatch box of the United Kingdom's House of Commons.

Directly responding to calls from then-European Commission president Jacques Delors for greater central control in Europe, she roared, "No! No! No!".

The UK prime minister's trademark defiance came against the backdrop of increasing divisions within her Conservative Party over the thorny issue of Europe. Weeks later, the so-called "Iron Lady" of British politics would be forced from power after 11 dominant years.

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