Thatcher remarked in 1993 that she backed UK membership of the EU,despite vehement opposition to the Maastricht treatyA political row over Margaret Thatcher’s views on the EU has deepened after pro-Europeans highlighted the late prime minister’s support for UK membership at the height of her battles against the Maastricht treaty after she left office.
Nick Herbert, the chairman of the newly formed Conservatives for Reform in Europe, or said that public remarks by Thatcher in the mid-1990s showed that she supported the UK’s “special status” in the EU.
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Source: theguardian.com