Ebook: Outside In
Author: Hain Peter
- Tags: Politicians, Politicians--Great Britain, Politics and government, Biographies, Biography, Hain Peter -- 1950-, Politicians -- Great Britain -- Biography, Labour Party (Great Britain) -- Biography, Great Britain -- Politics and government, Labour Party (Great Britain), Great Britain
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Biteback Publishing
- City: London;Great Britain
- Language: English
- epub
Peter Hain has always spoken his mind. So he does in this book. Here he tells his story as an outsider turned insider: anti-apartheid militant to Cabinet minister, serving twelve years in Labour's government between May 1997 and May 2010. Growing up as the son of courageous anti-apartheid South Africans, Peter Hain was first in the public eye aged fifteen, reading at the funeral of an anti-apartheid friend hanged in Pretoria. Living in exile in Britain during his late teens, he led campaigns to disrupt whites-only South African sports tours. His political notoriety resulted in two extraordinary Old Bailey trials and a letter bomb. Hain recalls his role in negotiating the historic 2007 settlement in Northern Ireland, being Britain's first-ever African born Africa Minister, and acting as a passionate advocate and deliverer of devolved government to Wales. Featuring Iraq, Mugabe, Europe, Gibraltar, blood diamonds, work alongside MI5 and MI6, and the delivery of justice for workers...