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William Jefferson Hague, Baron Hague of Richmond, (born 26 March 1961) is a British Conservative politician and life peer. He represented Richmond, Yorkshire as Member of Parliament (MP) from 1989 to 2015. He also served as Leader of the House of Commons from 2014 to 2015, as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 2010 to 2014,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Her Majesty's Government )〕 and as Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1997 to 2001. Hague was educated at Wath-upon-Dearne Grammar School, the University of Oxford and INSEAD, subsequently being returned to the House of Commons at a by-election in 1989. Hague quickly rose through the ranks of the government of John Major and was appointed to Cabinet in 1995 as Secretary of State for Wales. Following the Conservatives' landslide defeat at the 1997 general election by the Labour Party, he was elected Leader of the Conservative Party at the age of 36. He resigned as Conservative Leader after the 2001 general election following his party's second landslide defeat, at which the Conservatives made a net gain of just one seat; he thus became the first leader of the party, since the role was established in the early 1920s, not to be elected Prime Minister.〔("Lord Carr of Hadley" ). ''Telegraph'' (19 February 2012). Retrieved 12 August 2013.〕 He returned to the backbenches, pursuing a career as an author, writing biographies of William Pitt the Younger and William Wilberforce. He also held several directorships, and worked as a consultant and public speaker. After David Cameron was elected Leader of the Conservative Party in 2005, Hague was reappointed to the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Foreign Secretary. He also assumed the role of "Senior Member of the Shadow Cabinet", effectively serving as Cameron's deputy. After the formation of the Coalition Government in 2010, Hague was appointed First Secretary of State and Foreign Secretary. Cameron described him as his "''de facto'' political deputy".〔("William Hague quits as Foreign Secretary in Cabinet reshuffle" ), BBC News, 15 July 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014〕 On 14 July 2014, Hague stood down as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to become Leader of the House of Commons in preparation for his planned retirement from electoral politics, after 26 years as an MP, at 2015 general election, when he did not put his name forward for re-election. Hague was elevated as a Life Peer in the 2015 Dissolution Honours List〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dissolution-peerages-2015 )〕 and created ''Baron Hague of Richmond, of Richmond in the County of North Yorkshire'', on 9 October.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/2415596 )〕 ==Early life== Hague was born on 26 March 1961 in Rotherham, Yorkshire, England.〔 〕 He initially boarded at Ripon Grammar School and then attended Wath-upon-Dearne Comprehensive,〔Arlidge, John; ("Two die of meningitis at Hague's old school" ) ''The Observer'' 3 January 1999〕 a State-secondary school near Rotherham, previously Wath Grammar School. His parents, Nigel and Stella Hague, ran a soft drinks manufacturing business where he worked during school holidays. He first made the national news at the age of 16 by addressing the Conservatives at their 1977 Annual National Conference. In his speech he told the delegates: "half of you won't be here in 30 or 40 years' time..., but that others would have to live with consequences of a Labour Government if it stayed in power". Hague read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating with first-class honours (MA (Oxon)). He was President of the Oxford University Conservative Association (OUCA), but was "convicted of electoral malpractice" in the election process. OUCA's official historian, David Blair, notes that Hague was actually elected on a platform pledging to clean up OUCA, but that this was "tarnished by accusations that he misused his position as Returning Officer to help the Magdalen candidate for the presidency, Peter Havey. Hague was playing the classic game of using his powers as President to keep his faction in power, and Havey was duly elected.... There were accusations of blatant ballot box stuffing".〔David Blair, and ed. Andrew Page, ''The History of the Oxford University Conservative Association'' (OUCA, Oxford, 1995), p.33〕 He also served as President of the Oxford Union, an established route into politics. After Oxford, Hague went on to study for a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree at INSEAD. He then worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, where Archie Norman was his mentor. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Hague」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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