It will also allow him to spend his time wooing liberal voters in the north-east rather than fending off attacks from hard-line Republicans in the heartland who loathe his pro-choice views on abortion.
From Wapping the line will continue to Whitechapel - as the present East London line does - and then join the viaduct which formerly carried the linenorth from Broad Street station.
The Taxpayers Alliance said a reduction would bring it in line with a voluntary reduction to the salary of her opposite number in Bath and NorthEast Somerset.
Mr Hague said cyber attacks were "criss-crossing the globe from north to south and east to west - in all directions, recognising no borders, with all countries in the firing line".