Peter Hain

Presidential candidates

Peter Hain on Barack Obama: A Barack Obama win will lift the spirits of the entire world. Obama will mean a healthy new domestic policy, targeting tax cuts on the poor and middle class, not on the rich like George Bush and John...

Parties' finances 'must be transparent': The News Letter -

.â€_ Given the high-profile controversies surrounding donations to parties – including the cash-for-honours claims which dogged the Blair Government, the Bernie Ecclestone/Labour affair, the recent George Osborne foreign...

America votes

Hello again... In the freezing cold of a New Hampshire winter in January, I stood, and along with absolutely everyone else predicted that Barack Obama was going to win the primary there, and take a significant step towards...

Hain view criticised

Oct 30 2008 by Anthony O'Connell, Neath Guardian NEATH MP Peter Hain was wrong to single out a Neath community as being a place of lawlessness, it has been claimed. Speaking at Blaenhonddan Community Council’s October meeting,...

New Incapacity Benefit ignores health issues, says expert

The government’s replacement of Incapacity Benefit fails to recognise the health issues that claimants face, according to a public health expert at Durham University. A year ago, the Work and Pensions Secretary, Peter Hain said...