Hague battle cry for victory
WILLIAM Hague yesterday slammed Gordon Brown’s “empty, dispirited, shoddy, divided, burnt-out wreck of a Government” – but warned Tories they could not take general election victory for granted.
Britain was “crying out for change” from a Government which had “comprehensively failed our country”, the Shadow Foreign Secretary said.
But he said Tories must “never allow one morsel of complacency to creep into our campaign.” Mr Hague, who is effectively David Cameron’s deputy, said Labour will run a negative campaign. He said: “Barricaded in the Downing Street bunker they will fling any dirt, stoke any fear, spread any smear and peddle any distortion to scare people into thinking that change is dangerous, honesty frightening, and the fresh air of new leadership actually poisonous for the people of Britain.”
But he said Tories must “keep our nerve” and “resolve we will still waste no hour, neglect no voter, lose no argument, and leave nothing to chance” to win.