Hain guilty of "serious breach" over donations

by Dave Keating | January 22, 2009 at 05:26 am

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UK member of parliament Peter Hain, a former minister, has been found to be guilty of failing to declare political donations worth 1000,000 pounds. The ruling was made by the standards watchdog. Hain has admitted the wrongdoing and apologised.

The former Work and Pensions Secretary must apologise in a personal statement to the House of Commons, parliament's Standards and Privileges Committee said in a report.

Hain resigned in January last year after police launched an inquiry into the funding of his unsuccessful campaign to become deputy leader of the Labour Party.

His resignation forced Prime Minister Gordon Brown to reshuffle his cabinet and reignited a long-running debate over party funding and ethics in politics.