Originally Posted by Britannist

Good question.

It is with enormous pleasure that I heard of his resignation . Politically, this is some of the best news since Mandelson and Charles Clarke left the Government. Like those two, Hain is a rampant europhile.

This man Hain wrote a book highly critical of the EU, the euro and the EU threat to our liberties in 1996 - but turned pro-EU after appointment to the europhile Blair Labour Government.

In 2003 the awful UKIP-hating Hain told anti-euro protesters to "pack up your placards and go home."

It is an insult to the British people that he was made a minister and Blair and Labour insulted the good folk of Northern Ireland and Wales by later making him Secretary of State for both of those parts of the UK.

I hope that he never gets back into the Cabinet - but I have my doubts. Europhile Mandelson returned to Government after his first 'resignation'.

It is alleged that Hain is not the most popular person in the Labour Party - certainly his poor fifth place in last year's Labour Deputy leadership contest points to that claim being correct.