He is the nephew of the late Tory cabinet minister Nicholas Ridley and the brother-in-law of Environment Secretary Owen Paterson.

BBC: Viscount Ridley

And by conflating a decision on the euro with Britain's war history, she is coming dangerously close to expressing the very views for which in 1990 she was forced to sack the late Nicholas Ridley when, in an unguarded interview as trade and industry secretary, he called the European Monetary System a German plot to dominate Europe.

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