William Hague
William Hague
William Jefferson Hague, Baron Hague of Richmond, PC, FRSLis a British Conservative politician and life peer. He represented Richmond, Yorkshire as Member of Parliamentfrom 1989 to 2015. He also served as Leader of the House of Commons from 2014 to 2015, as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 2010 to 2014, and as Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1997 to 2001...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 March 1961
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country burning exit
I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it.
europe turkeys errors
Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.
too-late late treaties
It's not too late to stop the Lisbon Treaty.
country hands people
Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.
travel shadow secretary
There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.
minorities regimes isolated
Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority.
latin america economy
The total economy of Latin America is bigger than China.
economy carbon lows
The low carbon economy is at the leading edge of a structural shift now taking place globally.
promise half brown
Gordon Brown promised to abolish boom and bust. He has kept half his promise.
fun views long
I thank the Prime Minister for his remarks about me. Debating with him at the Dispatch Box has been exciting, fascinating, fun, an enormous challenge and, from my point of view, wholly unproductive in every sense. I am told that in my time at the Dispatch Box I have asked the Prime Minister 1,118 direct questions, but no one has counted the direct answers-it may not take long.
egypt sovereign nations
Egypt is a sovereign nation.
effectiveness giving independence
You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.
retreat british
The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin.
writing feet people
If some of the people who write about mojo came with me for a week, they would drop dead on their feet.