And the record shows that Hague was indeed warned. Hague should enjoy some time with his new fiancee. Well yes indeed it must. He was offered the post of running mate to Michael Howard. He could have slept this one out.
Few people ask themselves, but few can resist the insinuation of the lines.
And so Hague stabbed Howard in the back, and in due course received his reward, which was to discover that people didn't think he was quite normal, and therefore couldn't really be pressed into voting for him. What was meant by not quite normal has never been easy to define. And this goes on for some time, and can on a good day be quite entertaining, but nobody's mind is changed at the end of it. He has a joke, which of course he repeats from place to place, and he sometimes tells it quite well. It's about tax.