James Forsyth James Forsyth

Hague: The euro is a burning building with no exit

James Forsyth has interviewed the foreign secretary, William Hague, in
tomorrow’s issue of the Spectator. Here is an extended version of the piece that will appear in the magazine.



Politicians normally have to wait for the history books for vindication. But for William Hague it has come early. All his warnings about the dangers of the euro, so glibly mocked at the time, have come to pass. But, as he makes clear when I meet him in his study in the Foreign Office days before the start of Tory conference, he is not enjoying this moment. Rather, he is absorbed with trying to sort out the mess that others have created.

Leaning back in a red leather chair in, what he readily admits, is ‘the grandest room in government’, Hague tells me that, “It was folly to create this system, it will be written about for centuries as a kind of historical monument to collective folly.

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