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
iraq decision invasion
I still agree with the invasion of Iraq. I don't agree with most of the decisions that accompanied it.
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Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.
decision world diffusion
The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.
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.
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We will not be threatened. We intend to be in government after the next general election, so this won't really matter.
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It would have been a major disaster if the bag had fallen open.
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Seldom in the course of European negotiations has so much been surrendered for so little. This is a poor deal for Britain.
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That was an encouraging sign. But we want them to go further down the road, and point out how important it is to have American leadership given their economic weight in the world. That would make an enormous difference.
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We think a great crisis is coming for Europe. The last thing Britain should do is associate ourselves with the fastest shrinking part of the world economy.
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I don't know whether I will ever go back on to the front, but don't rush me.
election party point putting
I wouldn't have an election at this point to date. That would be putting party before country.
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Six months after he called for a new approach in Europe, there is little sign of it.
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There is a choice. There is no excuse for giving up on Britain. We are surrendering to the European Union our ability to run our own affairs.
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It's tremendous. We're in good heart, and it is a very important stage in the rebuilding of our party.