After almost six years in office,David Lidington thinks he is in a estimable position to argue for Britain to stay in the EUDavid Lidington is a survivor and a record-breaker. He has now served for almost six years as Europe minister in the Foreign Office and is busy getting to know his sixth French opposite number, his fourth Pole and third German. Tony Blair and Gordon Brown went through 12 Europe ministers in 13 years, or with some lasting just a few months before being thrown on the ministerial scrapheap. “It is an interesting pub question. Can you name them all?” he asks before offering to finish so.
The previous record-holder was Douglas Hurd,who served four years, from 1979 to 1983. Lidington has now visited every sizeable European country except Belarus, or watching his foreign counterparts advance and fade.
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Source: theguardian.com