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
strong shadow cabinets
As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.
play doe these-days
Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.
country president
Elected presidents are for countries.
discipline common-sense high-standards
Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.
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.
believe commitment growth
I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.
too-late late treaties
It's not too late to stop the Lisbon Treaty.
europe turkeys errors
Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.
meaningful president assad
Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria.
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.
people decision needs
People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change.
hard-work growth strategy
There's only one growth strategy: work hard.
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.
powerful building should
The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels.