I don’t know for sure if Peter Hain’s Facebook page is actually Peter Hain. But if it is, why has he posted a Daily Mail article claiming that his views on the Gary McKinnon extradition have caused a Cabinet split? I managed to grab this screen shot of the post.
It has been well reported that his hostility to the extradition has caused friction with the Home Secretary, Alan Johnson – but to openly post that this is causing tensions within the cabinet is more than a little odd.
Richard Lane
Richard Lane is an Events Manager for the Fabian Society and is a member of the National Executive of LGBT Labour. He spent much of 2008 working on the Presidential election in the United States, firstly working on the primary campaign for Hillary Clinton and then on the general election for Barack Obama.<br />
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Richard has previously worked as a Research Assistant to Yvette Cooper MP and for the Cabinet Office and he blogs regularly on sites such as LabourList, Next Left and his own blog, Politicana.
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