![]() ![]() William Hague was leader of the Conservative Party in the UK, 1997-2001. William Hague's biography is comparable to Roy Jenkins's Life of Churchill – an eminent politician writing an Prime Ministerial life. He enjoyed huge success, yet died at the nadir of his fortunes, struggling to maintain a government beset by a thin majority at home and military disaster abroad he worked, worried and drank himself to death. Domestic crises included unrest in Ireland, deep division in the royal family and the madness of the King, and a full-scale naval mutiny. Pitt presided over dramatic changes in the country's finances and trade, brought about the union with Ireland, and directed the years of debilitating war with France. No British politician since then has exercised such supremacy for so long. ![]() ![]() Yet he annihilated his opponents in the General Election the following year and dominated the governing of Britain for twenty-two years. The younger William Pitt – known as the ‘schoolboy' – began his days as Prime Minister in 1783 deeply underestimated and completely beleaguered. In this lively and authoritative study, William Haguehimself the youngest political party leader in recent historyexplains the dramatic events and exceptional. ![]()
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