The Labour MP for Neath and the Secretary of State for Wales, he is titled from 2015 the Lord Hain.
His mother Adelaine Florence Stocks, (Port Alfred South Africa,16 February 1927- 8 September 2019) was an anti apartheid activist like his father Walter Hain who died in 2016.
At 19, he spearheaded the campaign to have South Africa cricket tour called off in the UK.