Calls for UK to bar Bain & Co from contracts over South Africa corruption

Exclusive: Measure needed in light of judicial commission's findings about role of firm, says Lord Hain

Boris Johnson should bar Bain & Company from lucrative government contracts in light of a judicial commission's findings about the management consultancy's despicable" role in state corruption in South Africa, Peter Hain has said.

In a letter shared with the Guardian, the former Labour minister and anti-apartheid campaigner urged Johnson to immediately freeze all government contracts with Bain" and to advise all public bodies to do the same.