Anthony Barnett suggested to me recently that Peter Hain's troubles were a good example of the centrifugal forces engulfing the union. In Wales, Labour has just just lost a Secretary of State. In Scotland, the pressure on Wendy Alexander has just ratcheted up a notch.
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