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| Hain faces quit call on donations | Hain faces quit call on donations |
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| Plaid Cymru has called for Peter Hain's resignation after fresh revelations about the funding of his failed Labour deputy leadership bid. | |
| Elfyn Llwyd, Plaid's parliamentary leader, said the work and pensions secretary's position was "untenable". | Elfyn Llwyd, Plaid's parliamentary leader, said the work and pensions secretary's position was "untenable". |
| The call comes after it emerged a trustee of a think tank which channelled £25,000 into Mr Hain's bid was also the campaign's treasurer. | The call comes after it emerged a trustee of a think tank which channelled £25,000 into Mr Hain's bid was also the campaign's treasurer. |
| The cash in the form of five donations was not declared to the authorities. | The cash in the form of five donations was not declared to the authorities. |
| Mr Hain, who is also Welsh secretary and MP for Neath, is under fire after failing to declare more than £100,000 in donations to his deputy leadership campaign. | |
| More than £25,000 in donations and a further loan of £25,000 were made by individuals through the Progressive Policy Forum, a little-known think tank, which does not have a website and whose registered address is a solicitor's office in London. | |
| Failed to declare | |
| The money was then passed to Mr Hain's campaign but not declared to the Electoral Commission as donations. | |
| One of the think tank's trustees, John Underwood, a former Labour communications director, was also the treasurer of Mr Hain's deputy leadership campaign, the BBC understands. | |
| In a statement on Thursday evening, Mr Hain admitted he had failed to declare more than £100,000 in donations to the Electoral Commission. | |
| He said: "I had reasonably assumed that the arrangements in place for deputy leader campaign would be sufficient to ensure compliance with reporting requirements." | |
| He said all of the individuals who had given money to the Progressive Policy Forum were asked if they were happy for the cash to be transferred to his campaign. | |
| But the BBC has spoken one donor who said that he was not consulted. | |
| 'Dynamite' | |
| A spokeswoman for Mr Hain said that he stands by everything he said in his statement and will not be making any further comment. | |
| Plaid's Mr Llwyd told BBC Wales the latest revelations meant Mr Hain's position was no longer tenable. | |
| He said: "John Underwood was treasurer of the campaign - he must have known of donations. | |
| "Yesterday I didn't say Mr Hain should consider his position, but today's revelations are dynamite. | |
| "More than sorrow than in anger, I am forced to say his position is untenable. | |
| "This appears to be playing fast and lose with the law and cabinet ministers can't do that." |