Is William Hague the Tory party's answer to Michael Foot? Like early-1980s Labour, this is a party hell-bent on sacrificing its electability on the altar of doctrinal purity

The Independent - London | October 9, 1998| | Copyright

ONE OF the friendlier ways of patronising William Hague is to compare him to Neil Kinnock: a modernising leader, eager to reform his party, paving the way for an eventual election victory, but not himself likely to become prime minister. After a week in Bournemouth, it is beginning to look as if a more appropriate comparison threatens to be Michael Foot.

This is not, of course, a matter of their character, age, or temperament. It is more a matter of their historic roles. Each was the last leader of their party to be elected only by their own fellow MPs. Each was chosen, in the wake of a ...

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