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William Hague: The Conservative Renaissance.(The Last Word)(Interview)
Byline: Adam B. Kushner
Al Gore came and gave presentations to the [Tory] shadow cabinet, which we found quite compelling. I take my hat off to him.
As the U.K. conservative party leader in the mid-Blair era, William Hague was the first Tory chief not to lead the country since the 1920s. With Prime Minister Gordon Brown stumbling, the Conservatives are surging in the polls. Hague, now shadow foreign secretary, would take over that portfolio if Conservatives win the next election. In New York to promote his new book on antislavery crusader William Wilberforce (the subject of the recent film "Amazing Grace"), Hague spoke to NEWSWEEK's Adam B. Kushner. Excerpts:
KUSHNER: What's your read on Gordon Brown? Is Labour's decline irreversible?
HAGUE: I hope so [laughter]. I have spent so many years banging my head against a brick wall. Suddenly the wall's collapsed! Something important happened in British politics in May 2008, I think, with three sets of elections really showing a straightforward switch of large numbers of people from Labour to Conservative.
This last month has made us conscious that we really do have to be ready to be the government. This is for real.
What happened? Is there an ideological shift in the U.K., or it just disillusionment with Brown?
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