BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's biggest critic within her own conservative party, 37-year old Jens Spahn, will not drop his demands for a rightward shift in the party once he becomes health minister, associates said on Monday.
Spahn, who once told a high school teacher he aspired to be chancellor, often grabs headlines with his conservative views, including a recent claim that too many "hipsters" were speaking English in Berlin instead of German.
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