WILLIAM Hague is becoming an authority on British politicians. After the success of his earlier biography on William Pitt the Younger, the ex-Conservative Party leader has turned his attention to William Wilberforce and the politicians campaign to see the

WILLIAM Hague is becoming an authority on British politicians.

After the success of his earlier biography on William Pitt the Younger, the ex-Conservative Party leader has turned his attention to William Wilberforce and the politicians campaign to see the abolition of the slave trade.

It is a compelling book about a man who was determined to change the world and a conviction that slavery had to come to an end.

The book is published to co-inside with the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade in 1807.