WILLIAM HAGUE INTERNATIONAL STATESMAN AND POOPER SCOOPER
In 1977 a speaker mounted the rostrum at the Conservative party conference and addressed the assembled delegates in the sonorous terms of middle aged authority, though for all the gravity of the speakers tone there was something pompous even ridiculous about the speaker, for he was a sixteen year old boy. “Half of you won't be here in 30 or 40 years' time", he impertinently informed his enraptured audience. The speaker was one William Hague. It is now approaching forty years since he made that speech and William Hague is now exactly where he intended to be, doing exactly what he was born for, holding one of the great offices of state. In 2010 William Hague was appointed First Secretary of State and Foreign Secretary. Hague is the consummate performer, both playing the statesman and engaging in parliamentary debate. He is an able parliamentarian and witty speaker. Though can I be the only one to detect another presence in the chamber when he is speaking, the ghos...