William Hague

Can anyone stop Britain’s Tories going full Trump? – POLITICO

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Who’s left? With an election looming, none of the One Nation members’ preferred candidates have indicated they would stand in a future leadership contest, and there remains a lack of certainty over who will even be an MP after polling day.  Constituency by constituency polling by YouGov earlier this year suggested both Mordaunt and Shapps … Read more

The center must hold – POLITICO

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Look back on the party’s history. The leaders who put the nation’s interests first and governed from the center did so with distinction: Disraeli, Stanley Baldwin, Winston Churchill, Harold Macmillan and, yes, Margaret Thatcher too.  When they went populist, it didn’t work. Who remembers the first Tory populist Andrew Bonar Law, who went full protectionist, upending … Read more