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The government would accuse Labour of opportunism but Messrs Cameron, Osborne and Hague - who served their apprenticeships under John Major - will remember that Labour's resolutely pro-European leader John Smith found an excuse to vote with the Eurosceptics over the Maastricht Treaty, producing chaos and division in the government.