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Conservative PMs and their battles with Europe

Theresa May’s vote of confidence, which she won by a margin of 200 to 117, is the latest scrap in a long-running internal Conservative Party conflict over the UK's relationship with the European Union. Whilst Labour also has divisions on the issue, a long line of Conservative prime ministers, from Edward Heath to Margaret Thatcher, John Major to David Cameron, have been tormented by Europe. Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ News correspondent James Robbins considers the troubled history.

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