A repeat of the Maastricht Rebellion?
Some think that Theresa May's task of getting eight Brexit Bills onto the statute book could be a re-run of John Major's troubles over the Maastricht Bill in the early 90s when a determined group of Tory rebels used every procedural trick in the book to thwart the government.
Back in 1992 Bill Cash was one of the leading Tory Maastricht rebels. Ann Taylor - now Baroness Taylor - was a Labour shadow minister.
The Westminster Hour's John Beesley hears reminiscences from them both along with Philip Webster, a lobby journalist who went on to become political editor of The Times.
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