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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
occupation resolution force
We're not getting involved in terms of sending ground forces into Libya. Let's be clear about that. And indeed the UN Resolution forbids that. It says no foreign occupation of any part of Libya.
july cities political
The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions.