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This article is about the British politician. For other uses, see Jack Straw (disambiguation). John Whitaker Straw (born 3 August 1946) is a British politician who served in the Cabinet from 1997 to 2010 under the Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
Apr 30, 2024 · Jack Straw (born August 3, 1946, Essex, England) is a British Labour Party politician who held numerous government posts, including home secretary (1997–2001), foreign minister (2001–06), leader of the House of Commons (2006–07), and lord chancellor and secretary of state for justice (2007–10).
May 30, 2013 · Of all the greatest of the Grateful Dead’s great story songs, I think “Jack Straw” might deserve some kind of an award for managing to be the most fully-fleshed-out and the most enigmatic of all. And I think the enigma revolves around the ambiguity in one line in particular.
Jul 22, 2019 · The English Job by Jack Straw review – portrait of Iran’s fixation with Britain. The former foreign secretary examines why Iran, for all its domestic flaws, has just cause to fear foreign ...
Jack Straw, former home secretary and foreign secretary. Jack Straw was a cabinet minister continuously between 1997 and 2010, serving as home secretary (1997–2001), foreign secretary (2001–06), leader of the House of Commons (2006–07) and justice secretary (2007–10). He was the Labour MP for Blackburn between 1979 and 2015.
Apr 9, 2022 · Jack Straw: the Iraq War split the West and aided Putin. The former Labour foreign secretary on the war in Ukraine, how the UK failed Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, and why he will never forgive Ed Miliband.
Rt Hon Jack Straw was appointed in July 2015 as a Member of the Independent Commission on Freedom of Information. He was Foreign Secretary 2001 to 2006, Home Secretary 1997 to 2001, and Leader of ...
