BBC News (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
The world faces a "new age of insecurity" unless the brakes are put on nuclear proliferation, William Hague warns.
ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
William Hague spoke to members of the respected International Institute of Strategic Studies this afternoon on the subject of "preventing a new age of nuclear insecurity": "The certainties of the Cold War, when nuclear weapons were concentrated in the hands...
ArmsControlWonk (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
I just got back from the IISS where William Hague, the Shadow Foreign Secretary, gave a speech on Preventing a New Age of Nuclear Insecurity . It is, apparently, exactly two years to the day since he last spoke on this subject to the IISS . Since then, however, the electoral prospects of the Conservative Party have brightened considerably so it had more of a buzz than last time. I confess that I didn’t...
ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
David Cameron on Monday night reflected on this time last year: "William Hague warned me that if he was smart, Gordon would go for a snap election in early October, just after the conferences - and that he would win....
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
William Hague says a Cameron administration would lead a campaign against a centralised Europe and seek to restore British control over employment and social law
Times Online (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
William Hague moves backwards, holding a bag of potatoes. A scrum of TV cameramen surges up the Shettleston Road towards him. “How much have the tatties gone up?” demands a reporter. “Well, that's more a matter for Annabel, obviously,” says Mr Hague inelegantly, glancing sideways at the ample figure of the Scottish Conservative leader, Annabel Goldie. “But it's a lot.”
Tom Jackson Online (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
That's how Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague described the Government, with news that they had ratified the beleaguered Treaty of Lisbon on the sly. The completed documents were lodged on Wednesday just moments after Prime Minister's Questions - the last opportunity the Opposition had to hold Gordon Brown to account before the generous Parliamentary recess. Wednesday's rubber stamping means that...
Talk about Newsnight (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
William Hague may be one of the sharpest MPs at Westminster - possibly THE sharpest -but even he can make the occasional gaffe. Today he was in a supermarket with the Conservative Scottish leader Annabel Goldie, who admitted yesterday she was a tad "overweight". "I don't know anything about potatoes," said Mr Hague in front of the vegetable stall, as he turned to Ms Goldie and added: "You're the expert...
NEWS AND PROPHECY (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
"Gordon Brown has no democratic or moral authority to sign Britain up to the renamed EU Constitution. This move is a total breach of trust with the British people and a flagrant breach of his solemn election promise to the British people. It is a sign of how arrogant and out of touch this Labour Government has become that they are totally uninterested in what the British people want on Europe. " It...
ConservativeHome (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
ToryDiary: Cameron to unveil economic recovery plan Local government: Swindon Tories prepare to be the first council to pull the plug on speed cameras Patrick Cusworth on Platform calls for William Hague to press the US to stop the "torture"...
Re-cycle of Life (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
Unlike most of his shadow cabinet colleagues, William Hague is remaining tight-lipped about his holiday plans. "I'm not telling," he says. "One of the joys of no longer being party leader is that I don't have to divulge that kind of information. All I'll say is that Ffion and I are going abroad." He did add that the last holiday that they took was at Easter in Marrakech.
wongaBlog (Free subscription) | 13/07/2008
Last week William Hague took the lead in PMQs, and said: Isn’t there something supremely ironic about being lectured about food waste by a prime minister who is past his own sell-by date? Which is quite supremely stupid. That’s not ironic, that’s just arsing about with words. Isn’t there something supremely ironic about being told to clean [...]
Exiled Preacher (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
William Wilberforce, The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner, by William Hague, Harper Collins, 2007, 582 pp. Last year marked the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade. Slavery itself was abolished in the British Empire in 1833. Many men and women campaigned against the slave trade, but the acknowledged leader of the anti-slavery movement was William Wilberforce. William...
Daily Referendum (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
You've got to watch THIS. George Osborne is going for William Hague's funny man of the Tories title. He does however manage to get across a very serious point.
Boggartblog (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Deputising for Gordon Brown at Prime Miniter's Question Time Yesterday, Harriet Harman was asked by William Hague why, in view of Mr. Brown's lecturing us all on the evils of wasting food, the amount Parliament spends of "hospitality", (booze and snacks) had rocketed under Labour. Ms. Harman snapped back, "I will not be advised on the virtue of moderation by a man who admits to having drunk eighteen...
