Government confidence vote on Maastricht: interviews:

Government confidence vote on Maastricht: interviews:; b)C4N: (Snow,Jon) ENGLAND: London: Downing St: No 10: INT CMS John Major PM intvwd SOT - There is a large majority for this legislation in the HOC / The Labour and Liberal Democrats and a small number of Conservatives decided to play games / Have unblocked the problem / It would have been weak not to deal with this / We have got inflation, interest rates etc down/ The rest of our programme has been masked by Maastricht squabbles / PM's have to accept responsibility / A lot of our problems have come from abroad eg Bosnia, Economy / It was right to have a long debate on Maastricht rather than rush it through / The Labour and Liberal parties have behaved in an unscrupulous manner / There is no division in the party on other issues/ Dont wish to go back to the ERM at the moment/ With this bill behind us and the economy recovering we are on a high note / I shall go on for some time TX 23.7.93/C4N