Fresh Start
5718589
220754743
2008-06-21T12:23:01Z
Eubot
231599
Hatnote formatting, see [[User:Eubot/Hatnote formatting]]
{{for|the United States bankruptcy doctrine|Bankruptcy discharge}}
'''Fresh Start''' was a grouping within the [[Conservative Party (UK)|British Conservative Party]] opposed to the [[Maastricht Treaty]]. It was founded by [[Michael Spicer]] and its members included [[Bill Cash]], [[James Cran]], [[Christopher Gill]] and [[Roger Knapman]]. In the mid-1990s over fifty Conservative MPs were members.
They organised votes against [[John Major]]'s government and in all they voted against the government 985 times and abstained 1,515 times in an unsuccessful attempt to stop the Maastricht Treaty being ratified.
==References==
*Anthony Forster, ''Euroscepticism in Contemporary British Politics'' (Routledge, 2002).
[[Category:Conservative Party (UK)|Fresh Start]]