Peter Hain
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"Peter Gerald Hain" is a Labour Party (UK)/British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)/Member of Parliament (MP) for Neath (UK Parliament constituency)/Neath since Neath by-election, 1991/1991, and served in the Her Majesty's Government/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 Labour Party (UK) deputy leadership election, 2007/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 Shadow Cabinet of Ed Miliband/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 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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I'm now going through, and indeed have been over the past week, a process in which I will be making an announcement in the next few days.

The evidence I have seen is absolutely clear-cut. If it wasn't clear-cut before, it's absolutely categorical now.

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.

These are early days.

I was horrified at the evidence I have been shown of the severity of the attacks on police officers.

Or are you against law and order, siding with those firing bullets at the police, throwing petrol bombs and blast bombs at police and attacking them?

Provided the enabling environment is established and maintained, this program will be achievable within two years, though if the conditions are right to move more quickly in implementing elements of the plan, the government will do so.

This is a moment of choice for everybody, for politicians and for people right the way down through every part of the community.

What I've done in this decision overnight is to send an absolutely crystal clear signal to everybody that we will not tolerate violence.