 By 2010 some of these concessions, although not Britain's non-membership of the Single Currency, had been overtaken by subsequent events.Even these moves towards greater European integration met with vehement opposition from the Eurosceptic wing of Major's party and his Cabinet, as the Government attempted to ratify the Maastricht Treaty in the first half of 1993.Although Labour supported the treaty, they tactically opposed certain provisions of the Treaty to exploit divisions in the Government.