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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There have been lots of promises by the IRA in the past, including (weapons) decommissioning events, but on a much smaller and more limited scale than this one ... This is different.
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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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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.
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I also want to see the IRA deliver on its promises,
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We're all working together then to look forward beyond an IRA statement, if it is the credible one we're hoping for and expecting.
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What's crucial is that the IRA produce a credible statement that paramilitary and criminality activity is a thing of the past. That they are committed to a future which is exclusively peaceful and democratic.
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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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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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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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It's been fascinating watching all those pictures of me with a lot more hair Jeremy, and looking very young. And we've all got things we've said, twenty, thirty years ago, indeed the whole world has changed since then.
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Even though I was a (Chelsea) fan, a fanatic, you actually wanted to see him do it -- you clapped him as he destroyed your team.
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I was horrified at the evidence I have been shown of the severity of the attacks on police officers,
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I would prefer that it wasn't there. I would prefer it was closed, yes.
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So it is absolutely essential now that the government gives the lead to re-establish the rule of law,