Nevertheless, he has placed himself on the side of what is sometimes called
hard euroscepticism in his clear commitment to leave the EU.
The decision of David Cameron to give in to such demands was thus another attempt to defuse the mobilisation of
hard Euroscepticism within the Conservative party and to paper over intra-party divisions on Europe at least until after the 2015 general elections.
Not exact matches
Given the subsequent development of Conservative
euroscepticism, it's not
hard to see why that decision now weighs so heavily on Major's mind.