ABSTRACT
Europe was a continuing source of headlines during the 1992 parliament, whether over the Exchange Rate Mechanism, the Maastricht treaty, BSE, quota-hopping, or the question of whether Britain should join a European currency. Throughout, it was a major source of division within the Conservative Party at Westminster, most notably at the time of the nine whipless rebels. Europe thus will certainly have made a major impact on the ungovernability of the Conservative Party, its public image of disunity, and hence on the general disillusion of voters with the government.
