N(euro)sis all round
A week ago William Hague was ridiculed for fussing about the euro. Now everybody is doing it
PERPLEXING, ironic, unpredictable, unforgiving and generally pretty foul are the ways of politics. William Hague's attempt to make the euro the big issue of Britain's general election on June 7th was a calamitous misjudgment. Wrong subject, wrong moment to talk about it, was the near-unanimous verdict of pundits and voters alike. One short political week later, but with the habitually premature Mr Hague having now volunteered himself at 40 for the rubbish bin of history, the big issue of British politics for both main parties is indeed the euro.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “N(euro)sis all round”
From the June 16th 2001 edition
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