William Hague: 'We have to build new alliances with the emerging
powers'  On the eve of the Tory conference, the foreign
secretary discusses Libya, Turkey and Britain's changing place
in the world Foreign secretary William Hague Foreign secretary
William Hague has managed to tread a diplomatic line on key
issues such as Britain's relations with the EU. Photograph:
Antonio Olmos for the Observer  When a 16-year-old delegate
roused the Labour conference it was inevitable that comparisons
would be drawn with William Hague, who displayed a similar
precocity at the same age at a Tory conference 34 years ago.  "I
didn't see the film of it so I didn't see myself in the mirror,"
he says. "I read about it. People in their teens come up to me
and say: 'We need your advice, because you made a speech. How
should I go about it?' I generally say: 'Don't do it.' Then they
look so deeply disappointed and go ahead and do it anyway. It
becomes for 30 years the main thing that you're known for. Maybe
finally – I've been foreign