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One of the Conservative Party’s most respected older heads, former Conservative leader Hague has operated as Rishi Sunak’s de facto mentor since the latter’s arrival on the political scene in 2015, helping Sunak secure his old parliamentary seat in North Yorkshire when he retired from the House of Commons. The two men remain extremely close and Hague — now a Tory peer — has been known to roll the pitch for policy ideas in his must-read weekly column in the Times.
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