William Hague PC is a British Conservative politician. He read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating with first-class honours. He first made the national news at the age of 16 by addressing the Conservatives at their 1977 Annual National Conference. In his speech he told the delegates: “half of you won’t be here in 30 or 40 years’ time…, but that others would have to live with consequences of a Labour Government if it stayed in power”. He represented Richmond, Yorkshire as Member of Parliament (MP) from 1989 to 2015. He also served as Leader of the House of Commons from 2014 to 2015, as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 2010 to 2014, and as Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1997 to 2001. On 14 July 2014, he stood down as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to become Leader of the House of Commons in preparation for his planned retirement from electoral politics, after 26 years as an MP, at 2015 general election, when he did not put his name forward for re-election.