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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beholden create house wants
He wants to create a House of Cronies, beholden to him alone, ... constitutional vandalism.
rush whether
I don't know whether I will ever go back on to the front, but don't rush me.
iran rights leader
Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders.
motivational block rights
Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.
too-late late treaties
It's not too late to stop the Lisbon Treaty.
minorities regimes isolated
Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority.
economy carbon lows
The low carbon economy is at the leading edge of a structural shift now taking place globally.
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.
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.
government forever use
Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history.
idealism-and-realism foreign-policy realism
I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.
mogadishu somalia britain
Whatever happens in Mogadishu, in Somalia, will happen in Great Britain. We have interlocking interests.
party years credit
On the question of taking credit for what goes right and blame for what goes wrong - having led the Conservative party for four years, I have never heard of this notion before.