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    Hague said he had raised the allegations of antisemitism with Clinton at the end of a 40-minute discussion on Iran, the Balkans, the Middle East, Northern Ireland, Afghanistan and climate change. "No one has raised with me all day the other issue, of the parties in our grouping, but I raised that with secretary of state Clinton because of press reports in your newspaper [the Guardian] and others in case she had seen those ... I have assured her they are mainstream parties of the centre-right … The Conservative party rejects what it regards as a smear campaign against some of its members." He noted that Kaminski made his first speech in the European Parliament highlighting the problem of anti-semitism in Europe and had just completed a successful visit to Israel. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
    No one has raised with me all day the other issue, of the parties in our grouping, but I raised that with secretary of state Clinton because of press reports in your newspaper [the Guardian] and others in case she had seen those ... I have assured her they are mainstream parties of the centre-right … The Conservative party rejects what it regards as a smear campaign against some of its members.
    William Hague William Hague SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 1 month ago