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For years, Eurosceptics were derided as a band of fringe eccentrics on the margins of the Conservative Party and mainstream British politics. When John Redwood challenged prime minister John Major for the Tory leadership in 1995, his supporters were mocked as the “barmy army” and “ward 8 of Broadmoor”. But a quarter of a century on as the UK prepares to sever its final ties with the EU, the Eurosceptics are about to celebrate their ultimate triumph. It is a struggle that had its roots in the bitter Commons battles of the early 1990s over the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty which created the modern European Union.

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