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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.

William Hague

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William Hague
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: March 26
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British Politician
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William Jefferson Hague
Baron Hague of Richmond
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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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I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.
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Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority.
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