William Hague is an elected MP of one of the around 650 constituencies across the UK for whom he is supposed to represent the opinion of around 80,000 of the UK's popualtion who live in that one area.

He is in the news due to his job as Foreign Secretary in the Cabinet and I believe it's the Priminister and his advisors etc. who chose the Cabinet members.

What he states as Foreign Secretary is therefore towing the Cabinet line for the nation and therefore not necessarily the opinion of the nation OR in fact his constituency members.

This is why although the Cabinet were mostly in favour of joining the US in the Syrian crisis when it was put to a vote in the Commons each one that was an MP were representing a relatively small percentage of the the population with the majority of the other MP's representing their own constituencies voting against.

That is how basically it is possible for a decision to be made by the populous against Government preferences.

I think that is sort of how it works anyway in my simplistic brain and how we make a vain attempt at democracy in the UK, but that is obviously as long as it goes to a vote! ;-D LOL

I think you are right, there isn't alot between any government representative to be honest as it's rather like a game of Risk!