In the early 1990s, John Major's Tory cabinet briefly discussed abolishing local councils altogether.
John Walsh's Tory Boy documentary has since landed award nominations, but again its central premise was firmly rejected by Stuart Bell.
As her successor, John Major, fought Tory rebels over the Maastricht treaty, her disdain for increasing EU integration burned as brightly as ever.
Council tax will also be significant in Wandsworth's other parliamentary seat, Battersea, where the incumbent Tory, John Bowis, is defending a majority of under 5, 000.
Tory MP John Baron, who delivered a letter to Downing Street in June, co-signed by 100 Conservative MPs, calling for an EU referendum said he had now received a "revealing" response from the prime minister.
Tory MPs John Baron and James Clappison added their support for a referendum, and their Conservative colleague Philip Hollobone demanded that the audit consider whether the UK was better off in or out of the EU altogether.
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But there was further criticism from within the Tory party, with John Strafford, of the Campaign for Conservative Democracy, saying Mr Ashcroft should resign as Tory treasurer when he becomes a peer to be replaced by an elected treasurer.
Tory chief whip John Lamont said it was timed to "cause the most upset".
But Tory former minister John Redwood, leader of his party's policy group on economic competitiveness, branded the bank levy a tax on lending money to businesses and individuals.
Since then Europe has contributed to the fall of Margaret Thatcher after years of fighting with her colleagues in the late 80s and the splitting of the Tory Party under John Major in the 90s.
Britain's new Labour prime minister was duly feted at his European Union debut on May 23rd, in a Dutch coastal resort, by colleagues who had grown tired of the relentless nay-saying of his Tory predecessor, John Major.
Comparisons are being drawn with the worst days of John Major's reign as Tory leader.
But the Tory MP and Speaker John Bercow have now agreed Mr Evans will "not resume chairing duties while police investigations are ongoing".
His wife, Baroness Hogg, sits as a crossbencher in the Lords having been made a life peer by former Tory Prime Minister Sir John Major.
And, despite his record, Lord Archer has also attracted support from Tory grandees, including John Major, Lady Thatcher and eight leading members of their cabinets.
Sir John - whose own time as Tory leader was wracked by backbench rebellions over Europe - warned the PM to beware of MPs "with Conservative heads and Ukip hearts", who will settle for nothing less than EU withdrawal.
To cheer themselves up the Tory leadership points to John Prescott's defeat and their success in PCC elections in crucial parts of the national electoral battleground in the North West, the East Midlands and Wales, but they know UKIP's success will add to the pressure on David Cameron to harden up his euro-scepticism.
The three Tory candidates are local councillors John Howell, Ann Ducker and John Cotton.
John Major, Mr Blair's Tory predecessor, had relied on a handful of civil servants to prepare his papers and run his diary, and a small Policy Unit to keep him in touch with policy developments in Whitehall.
In 1992, as plain John Taylor, Lord Taylor had stood as the Tory candidate for Cheltenham, which is normally a safe Conservative seat when the candidate is white.
And too many of the Tory shadows are mired in the failures of John Major's government.
He inherited Winchester after John Browne was criticised for corruption by the Commons, quit as Tory candidate, then fought the seat as an independent.
Panel member, John Campion, who is also a Conservative councillor, said the ruling Tory group had "no stance" on the motion but he believed that many councillors would be in favour.
The previous largest Tory rebellion over Europe was in 1993, when 41 MPs defied John Major on the Maastricht Treaty.
As a former member of John Major's cabinet, Mr Howard reminds voters of a period of Tory government which is best forgotten.
Between them the high ranking Tories Oliver Letwin , Dr Liam Fox , John Redwood , Archie Norman as well as Boris Johnson and the only none Tory - Northern Ireland's First Minister David Trimble agreed on everything, pretty much.
Senior backbencher John Redwood claimed there was a "hard core of at least 45" rebel Tory MPs who would not back the coalition if asked to vote for "unsuitable EU measures" in the future.
However, Tory Eurosceptics don't see it that way - see, for example, John Redwood or Douglas Carswell's blogs.
Also on tonight's programme are the former GMB leader, John Edmonds, former civil servant who dealt with employment relations Helen Leizer and Dominic Raab, the Tory backbencher who has proposed a change in the law.
The Tory leader said the problem was being made worse by "Tony Blair's Human Rights Act and John Prescott's planning guidance".
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