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  • Britain's Welsh Secretary Peter Hain leaves after the weekly cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street in London
    Britain's Welsh Secretary Peter Hain leaves after the weekly cabinet ...
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Britain's Welsh Secretary Peter Hain leaves after the weekly cabinet ...
Peter Hain's Biography

Peter Gerald Hain (born 16 February 1950 Nairobi, Kenya) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Neath since 1991, and has served in the Cabinets of both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, firstly as Leader of the House of Commons under Blair and both Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Secretary of State for Wales under Brown. He resigned from ministerial office over the failure to declare donations to his campaign for the Deputy Leadership of the Labour Party in 2008. He is the Member of Parliament for the Welsh constituency of Neath. He came to the UK from South Africa as a teenager, and was a noted anti-apartheid campaigner in the 1970s.

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  • News Source: BBC | 3 days ago
    But opposition parties say the deal with Chancellor Alistair Darling falls short of recommendations by an independent inquiry into Welsh funding. Gerry Holtham's commission called for a fairer system than the Barnett formula. The UK government said
  • News Source: BBC | 5 days ago
    His speech will be scrutinised for his views on the timing of a referendum on future powers. The row between Labour and Plaid Cymru over the issue was described as a serious threat to their partnership. But the parties later appeared to have settled
  • News Source: Open Democracy | 7 days ago
    In a small nation on the Western margin of the British Isles, amidst sheep and rocks and old mines, the world’s first popular movement for demarchy is beginning to test its strength. As the indigenous political establishment manoeuvres to wrest

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  • Blog Source: wrecsamplaid.blogspot.com | 1 day ago
    What is Peter Hain for? He's not for Wales that's for sure. In a week where he has attempted to undermine the One Wales Coalition Government by going back on Labour's word to hold a referendum which came close to destroying the ...
  • Blog Source: guerrilla-welsh-fare.blogspot.com | 1 day ago
    Mark my words Peter Hain will be the loudest politician of all lambasting the Tories when they hit Wales with cut backs. But we should never let him forget that it was his refusal to put in the safeguards before hand that have allowed ...
  • Blog Source: guerrilla-welsh-fare.blogspot.com | 1 day ago
    Fair play to Peter Hain you have to credit him with one thing – consistency. He is consistently doing everything he can to hold Wales back. From attempts to break pledges, to scupper a referendum, to break up a stable coalition ...

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