William Hague has criticised Peter Mandelson’s bid to become the UK’s new envoy in America as well as taking over the top job in the British university sector.
The former Conservative leader spoke out as tensions flared in the battle between the two men to become chancellor of the University of Oxford. Lord Hague said the two roles would be “incompatible” as he dismissed a jibe by the former Labour cabinet member Lord Mandelson that it was time to end the “Tory monopoly” of Oxford.
