Peter Hain
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The Right Honourable The Lord Hain PC |
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| Shadow Secretary of State for Wales | |
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In office 11 May 2010 – 15 May 2012 |
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| Leader |
Harriet Harman (Acting) Ed Miliband |
| Preceded by | Cheryl Gillan |
| Succeeded by | Owen Smith |
| Secretary of State for Wales | |
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In office 5 June 2009 – 11 May 2010 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Paul Murphy |
| Succeeded by | Cheryl Gillan |
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In office 24 October 2002 – 24 January 2008 |
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| Prime Minister |
Tony Blair Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Paul Murphy |
| Succeeded by | Paul Murphy |
| Secretary of State for Work and Pensions | |
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In office 28 June 2007 – 24 January 2008 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | John Hutton |
| Succeeded by | James Purnell |
| Secretary of State for Northern Ireland | |
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In office 6 May 2005 – 27 June 2007 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Paul Murphy |
| Succeeded by | Shaun Woodward |
| Leader of the House of Commons | |
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In office 11 June 2003 – 6 May 2005 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | John Reid |
| Succeeded by | Geoff Hoon |
| Lord Privy Seal | |
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In office 13 June 2003 – 6 May 2005 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | The Lord Williams of Mostyn |
| Succeeded by | Geoff Hoon |
| Minister of State for Europe | |
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In office 11 June 2001 – 24 October 2002 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Keith Vaz |
| Succeeded by | Denis MacShane |
| Minister of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs | |
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In office 28 July 1999 – 24 January 2001 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Geoff Hoon |
| Succeeded by | Brian Wilson |
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Member of Parliament for Neath |
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In office 4 April 1991 – 30 March 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Donald Coleman |
| Succeeded by | Christina Rees |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Peter Gerald Hain 16 February 1950 Nairobi, British Kenya |
| Political party |
Liberal (Before 1977) Labour (1977–present) |
| Alma mater |
University of London University of Sussex |
Peter Gerald Hain, Baron Hain, PC (born 16 February 1950) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Neath between 1991 and 2015, and served in the Cabinets of both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He was the Leader of the House of Commons from 2003 to 2005 and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 2005 to 2007 under Blair, and as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Secretary of State for Wales from 2007 to 2008 under Brown. In 2007, he ran for the Deputy Leadership of the Labour Party, coming fifth out of six candidates, although his failure to declare donations during this contest led to his resignation in 2008. He later returned to the Cabinet from 2009 to 2010 as Welsh Secretary, before becoming Shadow Welsh Secretary in Ed Miliband's Shadow Cabinet from 2010 until 2012, when he announced his retirement from front-line politics. In 2014 he announced he would stand down as the MP for Neath at the 2015 general election. He was nominated for a life peerage in the 2015 Dissolution Honours. Writing in the Guardian, he subsequently outlined his views on House of Lords reform. He came to the UK from South Africa as a teenager, and was a noted anti-apartheid campaigner in the 1970s. He was also Honorary Vice-President of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality.
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