David Lidington’s career has, in a sense, been defined by the United Kingdom’s relationship with the European Union. Shortly after the Conservative MP and former cabinet minister was first elected in 1992, John Major’s fortunes suffered an irreparable blow following the UK’s exit from the Exchange Rate Mechanism. “I don’t think we recovered from Black Wednesday for a decade,” Lidington, 65, told me when we recently met for breakfast at the Ivy restaurant in London.
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