1993 vote of confidence in the Major ministry

• Electoral history
• MP for Huntingdon
• 1990 budget

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• Premiership

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(November 1990 – April 1992)

• 1990 leadership election
• Ministry
• Citizen's Charter
  • Charter Mark
  • Cones Hotline
• Early 1990s recession
• Gulf War
• 1992 general election

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(April 1992 – May 1997)

• Ministry
• Black Wednesday
• National Lottery
• Further and Higher Education Act 1992
• Grant-maintained schools
• Maastricht Treaty
  • rebels
• Northern Ireland peace process
  • Downing Street mortar attack
  • Downing Street Declaration
• 1993 reviews of the British honours system
• Council Tax
• Child Support Agency
• 1993 vote of confidence
• Back to Basics
• Privatisation of British Rail
• Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994
• 1995 Conservative Party leadership election
• The Cullen Reports
• Cash for Questions
  • Committee on Standards in Public Life
• Arms-to-Iraq affair
  • Scott Report
• United Kingdom BSE outbreak
• Wirral South by-election
• Resignation Honours

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• The Autobiography
• More Than a Game
• My Old Man

The 1993 confidence motion in the second Major ministry was an explicit confidence motion in the Conservative government of John Major. It was proposed in order to ensure support in the British Parliament for the passing of the Maastricht Treaty. Due to previous defeats caused when Eurosceptic Conservative MPs voted with the opposition, the Government had to obtain support for its policy on the Social Chapter before the European Communities Amendment Act 1993 could come into effect and allow the United Kingdom to ratify the treaty. Dissenting Conservative MPs were willing to vote against the Government, but had to come into line on a confidence motion or else lose the Conservative whip. Only one eurosceptic MP was deliberately absent; and as a result, the motion passed by 40 votes and the United Kingdom ratified the Maastricht Treaty.