New Leader Tells Tories They Have to Be Tough Against Labor Seeking to end damaging party quarrels and bolster his own unproven leadership, William Hague told Conservatives today that they had to be tough with the Labor Government of Prime Minister Tony Blair. ''It's time to take off the gloves and punch our weight,'' Mr. Hague said in a speech notable more for its philosophy than specific proposals. He laid out a ''British way'' to combat Mr. Blair's vaunted ''third way.'' And on the issue that has divided the party and the conference, he said, ''The British way is to be in Europe but not run by Europe.'' The Conservatives, he said, had to become known as ''the party of personal liberty'' to provide favorable contrast to the ''bossy'' Labor Party, which, he argued, is turning Britain into ''a nanny state.'' He said that his party had learned the need to ''listen to Britain'' from its trouncing in the last election and that party workers now reported a falloff in the ''the old hostility that greeted us on the doorstep.'' He acknowledged that the party had yet to turn that into enthusiasm, saying that was the mission before them. In the weeks before the conference Mr. Hague tried to put an end to squabbling over Europe by holding a ballot of party members and announcing the verdict on the eve of the gathering. The referendum asked whether they supported Mr. Hague's position of keeping Britain out of the European single