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William Hague

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William Hague
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: March 26
Biographer
British Politician
Historian
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Politician
William Jefferson Hague
Baron Hague of Richmond
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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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I still agree with the invasion of Iraq. I don't agree with most of the decisions that accompanied it.
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There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.
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I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran.
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The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin.
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I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world.
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Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria.
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I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it.
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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.
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We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.
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Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity.
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When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister – no wonder the public are cynical about politics.
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I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.
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People feel that in too many ways the EU is something that is done to them, not something over which they have a say.
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We're not getting involved in terms of sending ground forces into Libya. Let's be clear about that. And indeed the UN Resolution forbids that. It says no foreign occupation of any part of Libya.
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I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a European Parliament with 100 fewer members, halve the number of political advisers, and abolish a huge swathe of Labour's regional bureaucracies - and agencies and their offices in Brussels.
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Labour have been listening for too long to the so-called experts who think that competition is a dirty word and that communicating facts to our children is elitist.
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In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time.
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Gordon Brown promised to abolish boom and bust. He has kept half his promise.
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Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.
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