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
cutting numbers agency
I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a European Parliament with 100 fewer members, halve the number of political advisers, and abolish a huge swathe of Labour's regional bureaucracies and agencies and their offices in Brussels.
people instinct blair
If there's one thing above all that sets me apart from Tony Blair it is this - I am not embarrassed to articulate the instincts of the British people.
economy carbon lows
The low carbon economy is at the leading edge of a structural shift now taking place globally.
country views together
The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together.
teacher children teaching
To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.
people reactions found
I have found that I get a better reaction from people once I am less bothered about their reaction.
stress people important
You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.
egypt sovereign nations
Egypt is a sovereign nation.
people fickle knows
I know people are fickle.
idealism-and-realism foreign-policy realism
I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.
trying world arguing
I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world.
wise military thinking
I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran.
iraq decision invasion
I still agree with the invasion of Iraq. I don't agree with most of the decisions that accompanied it.
wings government nasty
I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.