On Monday 24 July 2006 The Rt Hon William Hague MP gave an Address on "Meeting the Challenge of Nuclear Proliferation in the 21st Century".
Streaming of the Address and Q&A session are available. A transcript of his speech is available at the bottom of the page.
William Hague is currently the Conservative Party’s Shadow Foreign Secretary and Senior Member of the Shadow Cabinet.
Hague was born on 26 March, 1961 in Rotherham. He attended Oxford University and INSEAD Business School, France. Before entering Parliament he worked for Shell UK and McKinsey & Co.
Hague has been the Member for Richmond, Yorkshire, since 1989. Whilst in Government, Hague was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Rt Hon Norman Lamont MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1990-93; Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the DSS from 1993-94; and Minister of State, DSS from 1994-95. He joined the Cabinet in 1995 as Secretary of State for Wales.
He served as Leader of the Conservative Party from 1997 to 2001. In December 2005 he was appointed Shadow Foreign Secretary and Senior Member of the Shadow Cabinet.
