Nicholas Ridley Biography

Appointed Under Secretary of State for Trade & Industry

Nicholas Ridley and others created the new group to uphold and promote the free market policies that they believed had won the Conservative Party the 1970 General Election

This record states: Created in 1973 by Nicholas Ridley to promote free-market economic policies, following an intensive discussion to generate ideas at the Selsdon Park Hotel in Selsdon, with Edward Heath and his shadow cabinet in 1970.

This record states: Nicholas Ridley and others created the new group to uphold and promote the free market policies that they believed had won the Conservative Party the 1970 General Election.

This record states: The "Selsdon Declaration", to which all members must subscribe, was adopted at the Selsdon Groups first meeting at the Selsdon Park Hotel in September 1973.

The "Selsdon Declaration", to which all members must subscribe, was adopted at the Selsdon Groups first meeting at the Selsdon Park Hotel in September 1973

The "Selsdon Declaration", to which all members must subscribe, was adopted at the Selsdon Groups first meeting at the Selsdon Park Hotel in September 1973

Appointed Foreign Minister

Appointed Secretary for Transport, 1st term

Appointed Secretary of State for the Environment

Appointed Secretary for Transport, 2nd term

The ten regional water authorities are privatized raising 5 billion pounds

Shares in the regional water companies begin trading following privatisation.

Nicholas Ridley resigns from the Government after the Spectator interview