The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
William Hague flew to Italy for a lavish sunshine holiday with Barclays executives while back home the banks were being bailed out on a black day for global markets.
ConservativeHome's YourPlatform (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nick Wood is a former press secretary to Conservative leaders William Hague and Iain Duncan Smith. He now runs Media Intelligence Partners. A Labour MP was quoted this week as likening the financial meltdown to the 1982 Falklands War, which...
The UK Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Daily Mail: 'William Hague is facing awkward questions about his judgment after he joined a lavish Italian trip for Barclays executives on a black day for global markets... While he enjoyed the balmy surroundings of one of Europe's most expensive hotels, where rooms can cost £1,000 a night, markets in London and America went into freefall.'
Daily Mail News (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
William Hague is facing awkward questions about his judgment after he joined a lavish Italian trip for Barclays executives on a black day for global markets. He spent Friday on the sunny shores of Lake Como, on the final day of a luxury break organised by the hard-pressed bank's private wealth division.
The Sun (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
TOP Tory William Hague joins Italian sunshine bash for fatcat City bankers
Liberal Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Who says those Tories don’t feel your pain… From The Daily Mail:: William Hague is facing awkward questions about his judgment after he joined a lavish Italian trip for Barclays executives on a black day for global markets. He spent Friday on the sunny shores of Lake Como, on the final day of a luxury break organised by [...]
Zehra in Gloucestershire (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
...sees Caroline Flint take over from Jim Murphy as Europe Minister. A full list is available at http://www.politicshome.com/Landing.aspx?Blog=3503&perma=link . William Hague's take on the reshuffle says it all: http://www.conservatives.com/News/News_stories/2008/10/Bizarre_reshuffle_makes_Government_even_more_dysfunctional.aspx .
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
AT THE Conservative Party conference this week, William Hague, the shadow foreign secretary, fired the starting gun on the next big challenge for David Cameron: the Europe
Bananas in the Falklands (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
is isbn: 9780007228850, and is a slightly nicer book to read in hardback opposed to the paperback and takes not so long to get into the period as with the authors first book (reviewed here) but your experience might vary. It is another book by William Hague [wiki], and is funny to read at times, for [...]
BBC | Talk about Newsnight (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Thirty nine academics from the Political Studies Association placed the Conservative leaders as follows: 1. Winston Churchill (1940-55) 2. Margaret Thatcher (1975-90) 3. Harold Macmillan (1957-63) 4. David Cameron (2005 to date) 5. Edward Heath (1965-75) 6. John Major (1990-97) 7. William Hague (1997-2001) 8. Alec Douglas-Home (1963-65) 9. Michael Howard (2003-05) 10 Anthony Eden (1955-57) 11. Iain...
Afgha.com (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Progress in Afghanistan would be a Tory government's first foreign policy priority, says William Hague.
Spin and Spinners (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
The US defence department says the fundamental character of the conflict in Iraq remains unchanged, despite dramatic security improvements there, the BBC reports. Meanwhile, the William Hague has said that setting up an Iraq inquiry will be one of David Cameron's first acts as prime minister. I've just done a new blog piece for the Indy, pointing out that the government has little time left either...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
William Hague says an incoming Tory government would hold a referendum on the EU treaty - if it has not been ratified.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
David Cameron would set up inquiry into war as one of his first acts as PM, William Hague to tell conference
Chris Whiteside's Blog (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
The Conservative conference agenda for Wednesday 1st October includes * Preparing for government, with Oliver Letwin and Francis Maude * Our local environment - speakers include Eric Pickles * International Challenges - speakers include William Hague and Pauline Neville Jones and the main event ... * The party leader's speech from David Cameron
