The Political Leadership of Prime Minister John Major by Thomas McMeeking

Author:Thomas McMeeking
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030589387
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

No decision was, however, taken to ratify this at full Cabinet. Major had therefore, once again, left himself with no room for manoeuvre when eight MPs rebelled on the Bill, and only further exposed intra-party division and weakness at the same time.

When the whip was withdrawn the government also gave up its majority, something the rebels gleefully showed the government a week later when the planned second rise in VAT on Fuel in the 1994 Budget was defeated, thereby humiliating the government and only exacerbating an already febrile atmosphere within the PCP (Bale 2010, 50).

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