Difference between revisions of "William Hague"
m (Text replacement - "|twitter=" to "|twitter=https://twitter.com/") |
(Added: historycommons, wikiquote. Extra Job: Member of the House of LordsLord Temporal.) |
||
Line 17: | Line 17: | ||
|powerbase=http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/William_Hague | |powerbase=http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/William_Hague | ||
|sourcewatch=http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/William_Hague | |sourcewatch=http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/William_Hague | ||
+ | |historycommons=http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=william_hague_1 | ||
+ | |wikiquote=http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Hague | ||
|employment={{job | |employment={{job | ||
|title=Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party | |title=Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party | ||
Line 77: | Line 79: | ||
|start=28 November 1990 | |start=28 November 1990 | ||
|end=27 May 1993 | |end=27 May 1993 | ||
+ | }}{{job | ||
+ | |title=Member of the House of LordsLord Temporal | ||
+ | |start=9 October 2015 | ||
+ | |end= | ||
}} | }} | ||
}} | }} |
Revision as of 12:25, 24 February 2018
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | William Jefferson Hague 1961-03-26 Rotherham, United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | Magdalen College, Oxford, INSEAD | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Religion | Anglicanism | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Spouse | Ffion Jenkins | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Member of | Le Cercle, Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies, WEF/Global Leaders for Tomorrow/1994 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Party | Conservative | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
William Hague, Baron Hague of Richmond (born 26 March 1961) is a British Conservative politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Richmond in Yorkshire from 1989 to 2015. He also served as Leader of the House of Commons from 2014 to 2015, as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 2010 to 2014,[1] and as Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1997 to 2001.
On 14 July 2014, Hague stood down as Foreign Secretary to become Leader of the House of Commons in preparation for his planned retirement from parliament, after 26 years as an MP, at the 2015 General Election,[2] in which he did not stand for re-election.
Hague was nominated for a life peerage in August 2015.[3][4]
Contents
Meteoric rise
Hague was educated at Wath-upon-Dearne Grammar School, the University of Oxford and INSEAD at Fontainebleau in France, eventually being elected to the House of Commons in a by-election in 1989. Hague quickly rose through the ranks of the Major Government and was appointed to the Cabinet in 1995 as Secretary of State for Wales. Following a landslide defeat in the 1997 General Election to the Labour Party, he was elected Leader of the Conservative Party at the age of 36.
Resignation
He resigned as Conservative leader after the 2001 General Election following a second landslide defeat, at which the Conservatives only made a net gain of one seat; he thus became the first leader of the party since the role came into being in the early 1920s not to become Prime Minister.[5] He returned to the backbenches, beginning a career as an author, writing biographies of William Pitt the Younger and William Wilberforce. He also held several directorships, and worked as a consultant and public speaker.
After David Cameron was elected Leader of the Conservative Party in 2005, Hague rejoined the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Foreign Secretary. He also took on the role of "Senior Member of the Shadow Cabinet", effectively serving as Cameron's deputy.
Return to power
After the formation of the Coalition Government in 2010, Hague was appointed First Secretary of State and Foreign Secretary. Cameron described him as his "de facto political deputy".[6]
Deep politics
Hague is an attendee of Le Cercle, describing it as "a political group which organises conferences."[7]
A Document by William Hague
Title | Document type | Publication date | Subject(s) | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|
File:London Conference on Libya 2011.pdf | statement | 29 March 2011 | 2011 Attacks on Libya | Summary from the Chair of the London Conference on Libya |
Events Participated in
Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|
Bilderberg/1998 | 14 May 1998 | 17 May 1998 | Scotland Turnberry | The 46th Bilderberg meeting, held in Scotland, chaired by Peter Carrington |
Le Cercle/2002 (Morocco) | 27 June 2002 | 1 July 2002 | Morocco | William Hague attended |
Munich Security Conference/2011 | 4 February 2011 | 6 February 2011 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 47th Munich Security Conference |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2019 | 22 January 2019 | 25 January 2019 | Switzerland | |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2023 | 16 January 2023 | 20 January 2023 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | The theme of the meeting was "Cooperation in a Fragmented World" |
Related Documents
Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|
Document:Assange Judge is 40-year "good friend" of Minister who orchestrated his arrest | Article | 2 December 2021 | Mark Curtis Matt Kennard | Julian Assange’s fate lies in the hands of an Appeal Judge who is a close friend of Sir Alan Duncan - the former Foreign Office minister who called Assange a “miserable little worm” in Parliament |
Document:Keir Starmer is a Long-Time Servant of the British Security State | Article | 2 March 2021 | Oliver Eagleton | Keir Starmer is sometimes praised for being an outsider in the world of politics (or mocked as too lawyerly and insufficiently political). But in reality, much of his work as Director of Public Prosecutions blurred the boundaries between prosecutor and politician – following the dictates of the Cameron coalition, negotiating with foreign officials on its behalf, and dropping or pursuing cases according to its interests. |
Document:Niyirah al-Sabah’s Story | article | 28 August 2011 | Sandra Barr | Niyirah al-Sabah presenting her lies about Saddam Hussein's troops taking babies out of incubators that led to the Iraq War and Iman al-Obeidi claiming she was gang-raped by Muammar Gaddafi's forces justifying the 2011 Attacks on Libya |
References
- ↑ "Her Majesty's Government". 10 Downing Street. Retrieved 22 May 2010.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
- ↑
{{URL|example.com|optional display text}}
- ↑ "Dissolution Peerages 2015". Gov.uk. Retrieved 27 August 2015.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
- ↑ "Cameron announces 26 new Tory peers in dissolution honours"
- ↑ "Lord Carr of Hadley". Telegraph (19 February 2012). Retrieved 12 August 2013.
- ↑ "William Hague quits as foreign secretary in cabinet reshuffle", BBC News, 15 July 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014
- ↑ "Overseas Visits"