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William Hague, Donald Trump and the lesson of Eric Morecambe

9 November 2024

6:28 PM

9 November 2024

6:28 PM

Never has there been a politician to have fallen so foul of the Eric Morecambe mistake of playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order, as William Hague.

The former Conservative leader spent the first years of this century as a hardline EU-sceptic and telling voters that lax immigration policies were turning swathes of the country into ‘a foreign land’.

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