William Hague is the 160th chancellor of Oxford University

Lord Hague volition service a 10-year term. ‘What happens astatine Oxford successful the adjacent decennary is captious to the occurrence of the UK. I look guardant to moving intimately with the Vice-Chancellor and her team, on with students and alumni, to physique connected their fantabulous work,” helium said.

Hague won implicit contenders including erstwhile Labour Cabinet curate Peter Mandelson and Elish Angiolini, the erstwhile apical instrumentality serviceman successful Scotland.

The assemblage said Hague volition beryllium inaugurated aboriginal adjacent year. The chancellor is the university’s titular caput and presides implicit cardinal ceremonies, arsenic good arsenic overseeing the predetermination of the vice-chancellor, the university’s day-to-day leader.

William Hague graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford successful 1982. He began his governmental vocation astatine the Oxford University Conservative Association. Elected Conservative person astatine the property of 36 aft the enactment mislaid powerfulness to Labour successful 1997, helium resigned aft the party’s thumping predetermination decision successful 2001.

Hague said being elected chancellor, a station that stretches backmost to the 13th century, was “the top grant of my life.” “What happens astatine Oxford successful the adjacent decennary is captious to the occurrence of the UK,” helium said successful a statement.