Britain's first application for membership in the EEC (1961)
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Britain's first application for EEC membership was led by Harold Macmillan in 1961. According to Gamble, this initial application "formed part of a more general reassessment of Britain's place in the world, and the need to modernize British institutions". (Gamble 2003, 116)