Peter Hain

The Right Honourable The Lord Hain PC
Official portrait, 2019
Secretary of State for Wales
In office 5 June 2009 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Paul Murphy
Succeeded by	Cheryl Gillan
In office 24 October 2002 – 24 January 2008
Prime Minister	Tony Blair Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Paul Murphy
Succeeded by	Paul Murphy
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
In office 28 June 2007 – 24 January 2008
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	John Hutton
Succeeded by	James Purnell
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
In office 6 May 2005 – 28 June 2007
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Paul Murphy
Succeeded by	Shaun Woodward
First Minister of Northern Ireland
as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
In office 6 May 2005 – 8 May 2007
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Paul Murphy
Succeeded by	Ian Paisley (FM) Martin McGuinness (dFM)
Junior ministerial offices Leader of the House of Commons In office 11 June 2003 – 6 May 2005 Prime Minister Tony Blair Preceded by John Reid Succeeded by Geoff Hoon Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal In office 13 June 2003 – 6 May 2005 Prime Minister Tony Blair Preceded by The Lord Williams of Mostyn Succeeded by Geoff Hoon Minister of State for Europe In office 11 June 2001 – 24 October 2002 Prime Minister Tony Blair Preceded by Keith Vaz Succeeded by Denis MacShane Minister of State for Energy and Competitiveness in Europe In office 25 January 2001 – 7 June 2001 Prime Minister Tony Blair Preceded by Helen Liddell Succeeded by Brian Wilson Minister of State for Africa, the Middle East and South Asia In office 28 July 1999 – 24 January 2001 Prime Minister Tony Blair Preceded by Geoff Hoon Succeeded by Brian Wilson Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales In office 2 May 1997 – 28 July 1999 Prime Minister Tony Blair Preceded by Gwilym Jones Jonathan Evans Succeeded by David Hanson
Further offices held Shadow Secretary of State for Wales In office 11 May 2010 – 15 May 2012 Leader Harriet Harman (acting) Ed Miliband Preceded by Cheryl Gillan Succeeded by Owen Smith Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal Life peerage 22 October 2015 Member of Parliament for Neath In office 4 April 1991 – 30 March 2015 Preceded by Donald Coleman Succeeded by Christina Rees
Personal details
Born	Peter Gerald Hain (1950-02-16) 16 February 1950 (age 74) Nairobi, British Kenya
Political party	Labour (1977–present)
Other political affiliations	Anti-Nazi League (1977–1981) Liberal (1960–1977)
Spouses	Patricia Western ​ ​ (m. 1975; div. 2002)​ Elizabeth Haywood ​ ​ (m. 2003)​
Children	Samuel · Jake
Parent(s)	Walter Vannet Hain Adelaine Stocks
Education	Pretoria Boys High School Emanuel School, London
Alma mater	Queen Mary College, University of London University of Sussex
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Website	peterhain.com parliament.lordhain.uk

Peter Gerald Hain, Baron Hain, PC (born 16 February 1950), is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 2005 to 2007, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2007 to 2008 and twice as Secretary of State for Wales from 2002 to 2008 and from 2009 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Neath between 1991 and 2015.

Born in Kenya Colony to South African parents, Hain came to the United Kingdom from South Africa as a teenager and was a noted anti-fascist and anti-apartheid campaigner in the 1970s, and was convicted of criminal conspiracy for leading direct action events.^[1] Elected to Parliament at a 1991 by-election, he initially served in Tony Blair's government as a junior minister in the Wales Office, Foreign Office and Department of Trade and Industry. Promoted to the Cabinet as Welsh Secretary in 2002, he served concurrently as Leader of the House of Commons from 2003 to 2005 and Northern Ireland Secretary from 2005 to 2007.

Hain ran for the deputy leadership of the Labour Party in the 2007 deputy leadership election, coming fifth out of six candidates. He was promoted to Work and Pensions Secretary by new leader Gordon Brown, while remaining Welsh Secretary. His failure to declare donations during the deputy leadership contest led to his resignation from both roles in 2008. He later returned to the Cabinet from 2009 to 2010 as Welsh Secretary.

After Labour was defeated at the 2010 general election, Hain was Shadow Welsh Secretary in the Shadow Cabinet of Ed Miliband from 2010 until 2012, when he announced his retirement from frontline politics. He announced in June 2014 he would stand down as MP for Neath at the 2015 general election and was subsequently nominated for a life peerage in the 2015 Dissolution Honours.