Quote ="sally cinnamon"Hague has always been a good orator...'"
He has the ability to waffle in a convincingly authoritative manner, providing you just listen and don't probe further.
When you read it again later, you realise that he said nothing.
I've lost count of the number of times that John Humphries has floored him on the [iToday[/i programme.
Over Libya and Egypt he was way out of his depth, hadn't a bloody clue about what was going on or what (if anything) to do about it, and kept ducking behind the "Ooh no, that's too secret to tell you" curtain.