What next for William Hague? Having shuffled out of the Foreign Secretary’s job — to the less demanding post of leader of the Commons — the one-time leader of the Conservative Party will need to find fresh ways to entertain himself. Or perhaps it’s merely a matter of rediscovering old hobbies.
Hague is an accomplished biographer, having penned well-received books on Pitt the Younger and Wilberforce. But Hague doesn’t write his books as such. He does all the research, whittles out facts and marshals his thoughts. Then he dictates the works to a small team of note-takers.
There is some speculation that Hague may co-write a book with his wife Ffion — she is an author in her own right whose last book, five years ago, was on the women in Lloyd George’s life. Could The Londoner suggest a group biography of great foreign secretaries?
