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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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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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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At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.
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I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.
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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.
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It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.
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I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.
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Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.
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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.
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I wouldn't have an election at this point to date. That would be putting party before country.