Editing William Hague (section)

===="Foreign Land" speech====
At a [[Party conference season|Party Conference]] speech in March 2001, Hague said:

{{blockquote|We have a Government that has contempt for the views of the people it governs.

There is nothing that the British people can talk about that this Labour Government doesn't deride.

Talk about Europe and they call you extreme. Talk about tax and they call you greedy. Talk about crime and they call you reactionary. Talk about immigration and they call you racist; talk about your nation and they call you Little Englanders.... This Government thinks Britain would be all right if we had a different people. I think Britain would be all right, if only we had a different government.

A Conservative government that speaks with the voice of the British people.

A Conservative government never embarrassed or ashamed of the British people.

A Conservative government that trusts the people [....] This country must always offer sanctuary to those fleeing from injustice. Conservative Governments always have, and always will. But it's precisely those genuine refugees who are finding themselves elbowed aside.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/mar/04/conservatives.speeches |title=Hague's 'foreign land' speech |work=The Guardian |date=4 March 2001 |access-date=13 July 2008 |location=London |archive-date=16 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131216151850/http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/mar/04/conservatives.speeches |url-status=live }}</ref>}}

Former Conservative Deputy Prime Minister [[Michael Heseltine]], a prominent [[One-nation conservatism|One-nation Conservative]], was critical of Hague's [[Euroscepticism|Eurosceptic view]] that Britain was becoming a "foreign land", betraying in newspaper interviews that he was uncertain as to whether he could support a Hague-led Conservative Party.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1201755.stm |work=BBC News |title=Hague plays 'patriot' card |date=4 March 2001 |access-date=27 March 2010 |archive-date=20 February 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060220102500/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1201755.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>