William Hague, now Shadow Foreign Secretary, examines the friendship and contrast between these two remarkable politicians in a talk that promises to be both masterly and riveting – for, as the Sunday Times has noted, ‘he has that commendable gift of the professional politician: unerring ability to retain the attention of his audience’.
He then moved on to tackle, in time for last year’s bicentenary of the abolition of slavery, the life of Pitt’s friend and ally William Wilberforce, the orator and campaigner who shunned all honours, titles and ministerial positions, and yet became one of the most influential politicians in British history. Hague is also a former leader of the Conservative Party who wrote a book on William Pitt, in which he quotes Pitt the Younger saying: 'Necessity was the. In the first, William Pitt the Younger, he explored a subject for whom he had an obvious sympathy: William Pitt had, at 24, become the youngest Prime Minister this country has ever known. Since resigning as the youngest-ever Leader of the Conservative Party, in 2001, William Hague has combined his continued work as MP for Richmond (Yorkshire), with the publication of two historical biographies.
Yet he annihilated his opponents in the General Election the following year and dominated the governing of Britain for twenty-two years nearly nineteen of them as Prime Minister. William Hague on the relationship between Pitt the Younger and Wilberforce: contrasting friends. The younger William Pitt - known as the schoolboy - began his days as Prime Minister in 1783 deeply underestimated and completely beleaguered. William Pitt The Younger, son of his father Pitt the Elder (also Earl of Chatham) is the second longest-serving British prime minister and the youngest (at age 24) to have served in that capacity.
0 kommentar(er)
