Title: Paul Dacre
Content: (this was shortly before Black Wednesday in September when Britain was forced out of the ERM) and the Maastricht Treaty. Several leaders in his last weeks at the "Standard" asserted that "Maastricht is dead" (on 10 June); "Unrealities in the EEC" (sic, 29 June); and an appeal to prime minister John Major, 'Come on, John, gizzaballot" (30 June). In contrast, English was a Europhile and allowed more international content in the paper. Dacre apparently ceased publishing a page on World News and an American diary as soon as possible after he took over. After English died in March 1998, Dacre

Title: 1993 vote of confidence in the Major ministry
Content: willing to vote against the Government but had to come into line on a confidence motion or else lose the Conservative whip. Only one eurosceptic MP was deliberately absent and as a result the motion passed by 40 votes and the United Kingdom ratified the Maastricht Treaty. At Maastricht, John Major had negotiated a treaty which allowed the European Union to develop, but with the United Kingdom opting out of the 'Social Chapter' provisions on employment law. The opt out was strongly opposed by the Labour opposition, although it supported the treaty as a whole. The treaty itself was opposed

Title: James Goldsmith
Content: Maastricht Treaty, the E.E.C. re-titled itself as the European Union, with dramatically centralizing governmental powers being enacted over its constituent member nations. In March 1993 Goldsmith gave a televised lecture publicly declaring opposition to the European Union, which was transmitted across the United Kingdom on Channel 4 Television as part of its "Opinions" political commentary series, the text of which was published in "The Times" the following day under the title "Creating a Superstate is the way to destroy Europe". In the mid-1990s he financially supported a Eurosceptic think tank entitled the European Foundation. In 1994 he published "The Trap",

Title: John Major
Content: moves towards greater European integration met with vehement opposition from the Eurosceptic wing of Major's party and his Cabinet, as the Government attempted to ratify the Maastricht Treaty in the first half of 1993. Although Labour supported the treaty, they tactically opposed certain provisions of the Treaty to exploit divisions in the Government. This opposition included passing an amendment that required a vote on the Social Chapter aspects of the Treaty before it could be ratified. On 22 July 1993, several Conservative MPs, known as the Maastricht Rebels, voted against the Treaty, and the Government was defeated. Major called another

Title: Referendum Party
Content: (EU) in 1993 via the Maastricht Treaty. The EU differed from the EEC in having greater political authority, resulting in some reduction of the sovereignty of its member-states. The UK's ratification of the treaty in 1992, followed by its passing of the European Communities (Finance) Act in 1994–95, had generated much controversy and infighting within the UK's Conservative Party, which was then in government under Prime Minister John Major. This caused much damage to Major's administration, which was increasingly unpopular among the British population. Various British newspapers, among them "The Sun", "The Daily Telegraph" and "The Times", had adopted a

Question: What became known s "the F-word" at the 1991 Maastricht summit, where Britain wanted it removed from the treaty?
Answer: Federalism