Sentences with phrase «hain resigned»

Mr Brown played down claims of a scandal, which come days after Peter Hain resigned over his failure to declare # 103,000 in donations.

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Gordon Brown said it would be a «great loss» if Mr Hain had to resign from his Cabinet positions over the latest funding row to beset the Labour party.

Mr Hain, who resigned as Work and Pensions Secretary last year over allegations about the funding of his deputy leadership campaign which were later dismissed, also suggested Labour had been too «caught up» in the success of the City to hold the financial system to account.

But Ian Gibson has become the first Labour backbencher to publicly state Mr Hain should resign.

Peter Hain, the Cabinet secretary forced to resign following a donations scandal, has hit back at the Electoral Commission as «incompetent» and unaccountable.

Gordon Brown has denied «dithering» over Peter Hain, who resigned from the government yesterday after the Metropolitan police was asked to investigate his failure to report # 103,000 in donations.