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The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.

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William Hague
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: March 26
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William Jefferson Hague
Baron Hague of Richmond
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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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The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal.
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The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin.
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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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We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.
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Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.
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Egypt is a sovereign nation.
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