Hague backs transitional plan to avoid great Brexit 'muddle'

Philip Hammond (left) and William Hague at a Conservative party conference.Philip Hammond’s plan for a stable transitional period is the best way to save Brexit from an approaching disaster, William Hague, the former Conservative cabinet minister, has said.Hague, a Tory peer who served as foreign secretary under David Cameron, said there was “clear potential for Brexit to become the occasion of the greatest economic, diplomatic and constitutional muddle in the modern history of the U