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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The message I take all round the world is Britain is open for business.
It must be quite rare for an interviewer to be interviewed.
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The most expensive haircut I ever had cost ?10.
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Our relationship with the United States is central to our foreign policy and ought to be one of a deep and enduring partnership.
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He wants to create a House of Cronies, beholden to him alone, ... constitutional vandalism.
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squandered a huge Commons majority, the goodwill of the people of this country, and the best set of economic conditions any government has ever inherited.
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The Deputy Prime Minister will present a bill that is rambling, over-inflated, illogical and ridiculously cumbersome - funny coincidence, that.
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Initial negotiations have been positive. It will be a matter of months rather than a year.
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Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!
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I feel fortunate that, by the age of 40, I had crammed in an entire political career.I had been in the Cabinet and been leader of the party, so now I can branch out into other things... it is a very liberating feeling.
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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.
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If some of the people who write about mojo came with me for a week, they would drop dead on their feet.
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Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority.
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When you reduce taxes on higher earners it's vital to be reducing them on lower earning people as well so the nation shares in the approach.