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When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself - no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites.

William Hague

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William Hague
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: March 26
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William Jefferson Hague
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