Profile: Peter Hain

Hyperactive campaigner who played eventful role in anti-apartheid movement may now find himself called back to government Peter Hain is arrested in Downing Street in 1969. As a student he led the demonstrations that disrupted a Springbok rugby tour of the UK and led to the cancellation of a tour by the South African cricket team in 1970 is a hyperactive campaigner. Today he learned that he will not be prosecuted for breaking electoral law. But whereas other politicians in that situation might have settled for a quiet celebration, Hain has responded this morning with calling for a comprehensive overhaul of the way party-political funding is regulated. Hain saves his sharpest criticism for the…

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