Up until today, the Hague-Myers story was confined to scurrilous rumour on Guido’s
blog and the occasional cautious article in the Telegraph or the Mail; the rest of the media were uninterested. But, as James notes, Hague’s two extraordinarily frank statements, particularly
yesterday’s impassioned denial to ‘set the record straight’, have forced
the issue into the mainstream political debate. The personal always becomes political. What of William Hague’s judgement?
John Redwood condemns Hague’s ‘poor judgement’ in personal matters before going on to cast aspersions on his policy judgements, particularly those relating to the EU. Iain Martin discusses Hague’s supposedly pro-Arabist sympathies: ‘Is Israel getting a fair hearing?’ he asks. Iain also suggests that Hague cannot replace Cameron in an emergency as a result of this affair. Writing at the New Statesman, Sholto Byrnes raises the political corpse of David Ashby, who resigned from a government in which Hague was serving when it emerged that he had shared a room with an aide.
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