William Hague in action

One of the great privileges of my involvement with the International Young Democrat Union, and its parent International Democrat Union, is the people you meet. And I have been fortunate enough to have spent many days over the last few years with William Hague – John Major’s successor as Conservative Party Leader. One of the nicest and most interesting people you can spend time with – and absolutely down to earth. His biography on Pitt the Younger is incidentally also a superb read.

Anyway William didn’t succeed in the 2001 election, but he was then and still is regarded as a superb parliamentary debater – winning Parliamentarian of the Year several times. Now watch the You Tube video above as he has the House of Common in hysterics, including many Labour Ministers, as he paints a scenario of Tony Blair as President of Europe and how happy Gordon Brown would be with this. Superb stuff.

Hat Tip: Andrew Sullivan