On Wednesday 23 July 2008, The Rt Hon William Hague, MP, Shadow Foreign Secretary, delivered an address to the IISS on "Preventing a New Age of Nuclear Insecurity" .
A stream of the Speech and Q&A session is available. A transcript of his speech is available at the bottom of the page.
William Hague was elected as Member of Parliament for Richmond, Yorkshire at the 1989 by-election. He has held several posts in Government including 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 (with responsibility for Social Security and Disabled People) from 1994-95. He joined the Cabinet in 1995 as Secretary of State for Wales.
In June 1997 William Hague was elected Leader of the Conservative Party and served as Leader until June 2001. During this period William was elected Chairman of the International Democrat Union, the global alliance of Conservative, Christian Democrat and like-minded parties of the centre and centre right and he is currently the Assistant Chairman.
In December 2005, William Hague was appointed Shadow Foreign Secretary and Senior Member of the Shadow Cabinet.
At the 2007 Spectator Parliamentarian of the Year Awards he won the award for “Speech of the Year”.
