William Hague
William Jefferson Hague MP FRSL (born 26 March 1961) is the British Foreign Secretary and First Secretary of State. He served as Leader of the ... More »
BBC News Litvinenko inquest in doubt after evidence ruling
In a pre-inquest hearing, Foreign Secretary William Hague asked Sir Robert to exclude material from the eventual hearing under a power called Public Interest Immunity. The PII process allows ministers to ask courts to withhold information from a hearing if its disclosure could be ... Read more »
Brad Pitt's mother Jane pays tribute to Angelina Jolie after she undergoes mastectomy
She visited the Republic of Congo on March 26 on humanitarian duties and attended the G8 summit in London on April 11 with William Hague, after her initial operations but before the all the procedures had finished. Many women opt for preventative surgery because the risk of breast cancer ... Read more »
Osborne keeps on clowning: Chancellor keeps up hostility with UKIP after tweeting picture with capti...
But we’ve also got to make them feel that we care about their issues, that we care about the taxes they have.’ Following the Chancellor’s tweet, Foreign Secretary William Hague said Osborne’s intervention was a ‘joke’ and insisted that the Tories would ‘respect’ the message sent by ... Read more »
Five reasons why we love Angelina Jolie
British Foreign Secretary William Hague (L) listens as Jolie speaks on the issue of sexual violence against women during a G8 Foreign Ministers meeting in London on April 11, 2013. Leading Women connects you to extraordinary women of our time -- remarkable professionals who have made it ... Read more »
BBC News Nigel Evans duties 'on hold' during rape inquiry
After entering the Commons that year, he quickly became a parliamentary private secretary, working for William Hague for two years during his time as Secretary of State for Wales. An outspoken right-wing MP and known Eurosceptic, Mr Evans was one of the first MPs to start campaigning ... Read more »
Cameron will give Cabinet Ministers a free vote on EU referendum debate (...but he will be in the US...
Eurosceptic ministers including Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, Environment Secretary Owen Paterson, and even Foreign Secretary William Hague, are among at least 100 Conservatives who may support the move, sources said. Labour leader Ed Miliband will today announce that ... Read more »
Somalia: International talks focus on peaceful future
UK Foreign Secretary William Hague said Somalia's people and government should be proud of the "huge progress" the country has made over the past year. "A new parliament and government have been appointed in the most representative political process in a generation," he said in a ... Read more »
London hosts Somalia meeting to aid post-war gains
Eradicating sexual violence — a cause championed by British Foreign Secretary William Hague — will also be on the agenda. In the run-up to the conference Britain and the United Arab Emirates announced 2 million pounds ($3.1 million) in joint funding to help tackle sexual violence in ... Read more »
Alexander Litvinenko inquest close to collapse after coroner rules evidence should be heard in secre...
'The effect of today's ruling is to protect those responsible for ordering the murder of a British citizen on the streets of London, and to allow the Russian government to shield behind a claim for secrecy made by William Hague with the backing of the Prime Minister David Cameron. ' The ... Read more »
BBC News Newspaper review: Tory 'loons' remarks dominate
The Guardian says that Mr Litvinenko's widow launched a blistering attack on Foreign Secretary William Hague and Mr Cameron, accusing them of sabotaging the inquest. Several of the tabloids lead with the news that British detectives reviewing the Madeleine McCann case have identified ... Read more »
Executed as they waited on a pavement kerb: Terrifying assassination video of three men by 'Islamist...
UK Foreign Secretary William Hague revealed last month that a soil sample taken from Khan al-Assad had tested positive for a chemical agent. A U.N. plan for a chemical weapons investigation has been blocked because Assad's government has refused to grant an international inspection team ... Read more »
David Cameron's European problems have only just begun – Telegraph Blogs
If the failing single currency is, as William Hague once warned, a burning building with no exits, our policy has been to urge the fire brigade to nail the windows shut too, in case the helpless innocents trapped inside should spread the blaze to the property next door. Also, ministers ... Read more »
Like mother, like daughter: Angelina Jolie will play Marcheline Bertrand in biopic to celebrate late...
Humanitarian: Angelina, pictured here with Foreign Secretary William Hague on a trip in March to the Democratic Republic of Congo to raise awareness of warzone rape, supports a number of charitable causes like her mother Marcheline She wrote: ‘My mother fought cancer and died at 56. 'She ... Read more »
Brave, yes, but Angelina Jolie is misleading women...
She even accompanied Foreign Secretary William Hague to the Congo to highlight rape in war zones. Brave or deluded? If Angelina wanted to set a more honest example, she would not behave like Lara Croft. She would slow down, take time to recuperate and nurture herself back to full ... Read more »
PETER HITCHENS: Wondering how they ignored a kidnapper in Ohio? Well we're ignoring something MUCH b...
It rather looks as if it’s the Syrian rebels, the ones Mr Slippery and William Hague want us to help, who have been using chemical weapons. The UN’s Carla del Ponte isn’t sure, but she is plainly very suspicious. This inconvenient news, funnily enough, was buried or ignored by all the ... Read more »
David Cameron's working-class adviser 'pushed from No 10 by old Etonians'
Cameron has rejected criticism that he only appoints public school educated people to senior jobs, stressing that William Hague, the foreign secretary, and Patrick McLoughlin, the transport secretary, were educated at comprehensive schools. Sam Gyimah, Cameron's parliamentary private ... Read more »
Embarrassing? Yes. Eye-watering? Definitely. ANDREW PIERCE was horrified to discover he had thinning...
Think Foreign Secretary William Hague and his wretched baseball cap. By then, I was in a real state. What would baldness do to me? Would it dampen my natural joie de vivre? Shatter my boundless confidence? AFTER: Pierce says he feels more confident, attractive and younger as a result of ... Read more »
BBC News Former Tory chancellor Lord Lawson calls for UK to exit EU
Instead the issue has again exposed deep divisions within his party over the issue which dogged the leaderships of John Major, William Hague and Iain Duncan Smith before him. The BBC's political editor Nick Robinson said Lord Lawson's intervention was a "big moment" in the EU debate. The ... Read more »
Robert Fisk on Syria’s Civil War, Chemical Weapons "Theater" & Obama’s Backing of Israeli Strikes
It’s an odd situation, because, you know, in Mali we’re supposedly rooting out the center of jihadism, as I think one of the French ministers said, and then we’re told by William Hague, our current beloved foreign secretary in London, that the center of jihadism is in Syria. So, we’re ... Read more »
EU to delay labelling West Bank settler goods: report
EU foreign ministers, including Britain's William Hague and Laurent Fabius of France, said they would back the labelling initiative, in a letter obtained by AFP last month. Signatories also included the chief diplomats of Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta... Read more »
