Peter Hain
Peter Hain
Peter Gerald Hain, Baron Hain, PCis a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliamentfor 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...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth16 February 1950
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What I've done in this decision overnight is to send an absolutely crystal clear signal to everybody that we will not tolerate violence.
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Those responsible must be brought to justice. I will support the police in any action they take to do that and in the meantime I think everybody from unionist communities will be absolutely appalled at the way paramilitary groups are really acting in a gangster type way.
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We have good reason to suspect that Iraq is still hiding chemical, biological and weapons of mass destruction in a range of locations.
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The problem is that once the government and he (Mugabe) encouraged the land invasions and did not do anything about the violence, but appeared to condone it, the situation escalated,
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It's bound to be bumpy in the early stages.
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It's very serious and I don't want to speculate on who was responsible,
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They bear full responsibility for blocking it and I am sure the Muslim communities right across Britain will take very careful note of that.
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It is rock solid firm. There is no shifting from it. If everything collapses by then, then it (the legislature) will collapse. There will be no coming back.
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We have had a British police team out there investigating the situation with the Saudi authorities.
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We have a situation ... with the police facing attempted murder and police facing violence which is on a scale that we haven't seen for many years,
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There was no prospect at all of the completely different life that I now see around me just today in Belfast
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This is a moment of choice for everybody, for politicians and for people right the way down through every part of the community.
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Kent is a different situation. I think it is fair to ask the question about Northern Ireland and Kent, but everyone would agree that Northern Ireland is uniquely different.
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I take heart in the statements made not just by the IRA leadership but by the president of Sinn Fein in repeatedly condemning criminality and saying it has no part for the future Republicans.