Hain quits Cabinet over donations 'scandal'

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PETER Hain has quit the Cabinet in a bid to "clear his name" after his deputy leader campaign donations were referred to the Metropolitan Police.

Hain, work and pensions secretary and Wales secretary, quit within minutes of the Electoral Commission saying that it had decided to refer the late declaration of £103,000 of donations to the police. He has blamed poor administration and has said the suggestion he tried to hide anything was "absurd". Hain joined Labour in the late 1970s after leading the campaign against the apartheid regime in South Africa. But his bid to replace John Prescott as his party's deputy leader ended in failure when he came fifth out of six contenders and his campaign was left with huge debts, which it tri...

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