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id="toc-International_affairs-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Controversy_over_the_Iraq_War" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Controversy_over_the_Iraq_War"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.3</span> <span>Controversy over the Iraq War</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Controversy_over_the_Iraq_War-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Military_intervention_in_Iraq_and_Middle_East_policy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Military_intervention_in_Iraq_and_Middle_East_policy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.4</span> <span>Military intervention in Iraq and Middle East policy</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Military_intervention_in_Iraq_and_Middle_East_policy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Iraq_Inquiry" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Iraq_Inquiry"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.4.1</span> <span>Iraq Inquiry</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Iraq_Inquiry-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Rendition_and_torture_allegations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Rendition_and_torture_allegations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.5</span> <span>Rendition and torture allegations</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Rendition_and_torture_allegations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Leader_of_the_House_of_Commons_(2006–2007)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Leader_of_the_House_of_Commons_(2006–2007)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Leader of the House of Commons (2006–2007)</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Leader_of_the_House_of_Commons_(2006–2007)-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Leader of the House of Commons (2006–2007) subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Leader_of_the_House_of_Commons_(2006–2007)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-2006_debate_over_veils" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2006_debate_over_veils"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1</span> <span>2006 debate over veils</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2006_debate_over_veils-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Lord_Chancellor_and_Secretary_of_State_for_Justice_(2007–2010)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Lord_Chancellor_and_Secretary_of_State_for_Justice_(2007–2010)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice (2007–2010)</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Lord_Chancellor_and_Secretary_of_State_for_Justice_(2007–2010)-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice (2007–2010) subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Lord_Chancellor_and_Secretary_of_State_for_Justice_(2007–2010)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Ambitions_for_premiership" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ambitions_for_premiership"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.1</span> <span>Ambitions for premiership</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ambitions_for_premiership-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Expenses_claims" class="vector-toc-list-item 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id="toc-Retirement_from_front-bench_politics_(2010–present)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Allegation_of_antisemitism" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Allegation_of_antisemitism"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.1</span> <span>Allegation of antisemitism</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Allegation_of_antisemitism-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Cash_for_access" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Cash_for_access"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.2</span> <span>Cash for access</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Cash_for_access-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Personal_life" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Personal_life"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Personal life</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Personal_life-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Publications" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Publications"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>Publications</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Publications-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Publications subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Publications-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Autobiography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Autobiography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9.1</span> <span>Autobiography</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Autobiography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Author_or_co-author" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Author_or_co-author"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9.2</span> <span>Author or co-author</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Author_or_co-author-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Reports" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Reports"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9.3</span> <span>Reports</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Reports-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Explanatory_notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Explanatory_notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>Explanatory notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Explanatory_notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a 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href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%9C%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%95_%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0" title="জ্যাক স্ট্র – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="জ্যাক স্ট্র" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BA_%D0%A1%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE" title="Джак Стро – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Джак Стро" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Straw" title="Jack Straw – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Jack Straw" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Straw" title="Jack Straw – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Jack Straw" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CE%B6%CE%B1%CE%BA_%CE%A3%CF%84%CF%81%CE%BF" title="Τζακ Στρο – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Τζακ Στρο" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Straw_(pol%C3%ADtico)" title="Jack Straw (político) – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Jack Straw (político)" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Straw" title="Jack Straw – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Jack Straw" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DA%A9_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%88" title="جک استراو – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="جک استراو" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Straw_(homme_politique)" title="Jack Straw (homme politique) – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Jack Straw (homme politique)" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9E%AD_%EC%8A%A4%ED%8A%B8%EB%A1%9C" title="잭 스트로 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="잭 스트로" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Straw" title="Jack Straw – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Jack Straw" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Straw" title="Jack Straw – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Jack Straw" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92%27%D7%A7_%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%95" title="ג'ק סטרו – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="ג'ק סטרו" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw mw-list-item"><a href="https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Straw" title="Jack Straw – Cornish" lang="kw" hreflang="kw" data-title="Jack Straw" data-language-autonym="Kernowek" data-language-local-name="Cornish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kernowek</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioannes_Straw" title="Ioannes Straw – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Ioannes Straw" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%88" title="جاك سترو – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="جاك سترو" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Straw" title="Jack Straw – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Jack Straw" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Straw_(politicus)" title="Jack Straw (politicus) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Jack Straw (politicus)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC" title="ジャック・ストロー – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ジャック・ストロー" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Straw" title="Jack Straw – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Jack Straw" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Straw" title="Jack Straw – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Jack Straw" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Whitaker_Straw" title="John Whitaker Straw – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="John Whitaker Straw" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Straw" title="Jack Straw – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Jack Straw" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a 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class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">British politician (born 1946)</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This article is about the British politician. For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Jack_Straw_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Jack Straw (disambiguation)">Jack Straw (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%;"><div class="honorific-prefix" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/The_Right_Honourable" title="The Right Honourable">The Right Honourable</a></div><div class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">Jack Straw</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Jack_Straw_official_portrait_2015_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Jack_Straw_official_portrait_2015_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Jack_Straw_official_portrait_2015_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Jack_Straw_official_portrait_2015_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Jack_Straw_official_portrait_2015_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Jack_Straw_official_portrait_2015_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-Jack_Straw_official_portrait_2015_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="640" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:normal;padding-top:0.2em;">Official portrait, 2015</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Justice" title="Secretary of State for Justice">Secretary of State for Justice</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Lord_High_Chancellor_of_Great_Britain" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain">Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />28 June 2007 – 11 May 2010</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Monarch</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_II" title="Elizabeth II">Elizabeth II</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Gordon_Brown" title="Gordon Brown">Gordon Brown</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Falconer,_Baron_Falconer_of_Thoroton" title="Charlie Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton">The Lord Falconer of Thoroton</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Clarke" title="Kenneth Clarke">Kenneth Clarke</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_House_of_Commons" title="Leader of the House of Commons">Leader of the House of Commons</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Lord_Privy_Seal" title="Lord Privy Seal">Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />5 May 2006 – 27 June 2007</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Geoff_Hoon" title="Geoff Hoon">Geoff Hoon</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Harriet_Harman" title="Harriet Harman">Harriet Harman</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Foreign_and_Commonwealth_Affairs" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs">Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />8 June 2001 – 5 May 2006</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Robin_Cook" title="Robin Cook">Robin Cook</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Beckett" title="Margaret Beckett">Margaret Beckett</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_the_Home_Department" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary of State for the Home Department">Secretary of State for the Home Department</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />2 May 1997 – 8 June 2001</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Michael_Howard" title="Michael Howard">Michael Howard</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/David_Blunkett" title="David Blunkett">David Blunkett</a> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> <table class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="margin-bottom:-.65em; ; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2" style="line-height:normal; padding:0.2em; border:1px dashed lightgrey;;"><div style="text-align: center; padding: 0 0.4em; margin: 0 3.3em"><a href="/wiki/Shadow_Cabinet" class="mw-redirect" title="Shadow Cabinet">Shadow Cabinet</a> posts </div></th> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:#eee;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Shadow_Deputy_Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Shadow Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Shadow Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b><a href="/wiki/First_Shadow_Cabinet_of_Harriet_Harman" title="First Shadow Cabinet of Harriet Harman">Acting</a></b></span><br />11 May 2010 – 25 September 2010</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Leader</th><td class="infobox-data">Harriet Harman (acting)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/William_Hague" title="William Hague">William Hague</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Harriet Harman</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:#eee;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Shadow_Secretary_of_State_for_Justice" title="Shadow Secretary of State for Justice">Shadow Secretary of State for Justice</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Shadow_Lord_Chancellor" title="Shadow Lord Chancellor">Shadow Lord Chancellor</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />11 May 2010 – 8 October 2010</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Leader</th><td class="infobox-data">Harriet Harman (acting)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Dominic_Grieve" title="Dominic Grieve">Dominic Grieve</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sadiq_Khan" title="Sadiq Khan">Sadiq Khan</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:#eee;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Shadow_Home_Secretary" title="Shadow Home Secretary">Shadow Home Secretary</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />20 October 1994 – 2 May 1997</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Leader</th><td class="infobox-data">Tony Blair</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Tony Blair</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Michael Howard</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:#eee;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Shadow_Minister_for_Local_Government_and_Housing" class="mw-redirect" title="Shadow Minister for Local Government and Housing">Shadow Minister for Local Government and Housing</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />24 July 1992 – 20 October 1994</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Leader</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Smith_(Labour_Party_leader)" title="John Smith (Labour Party leader)">John Smith</a></li><li>Margaret Beckett (acting)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Eric_Heffer" title="Eric Heffer">Eric Heffer</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Nick_Raynsford" title="Nick Raynsford">Nick Raynsford</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:#eee;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Shadow_Secretary_of_State_for_Education_and_Science" class="mw-redirect" title="Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Science">Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Science</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />13 July 1987 – 18 July 1992</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Leader</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Neil_Kinnock" title="Neil Kinnock">Neil Kinnock</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Giles_Radice" title="Giles Radice">Giles Radice</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ann_Taylor,_Baroness_Taylor_of_Bolton" title="Ann Taylor, Baroness Taylor of Bolton">Ann Taylor</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Member of Parliament</a><br />for <a href="/wiki/Blackburn_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Blackburn (UK Parliament constituency)">Blackburn</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />3 May 1979 – 30 March 2015</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Barbara_Castle" title="Barbara Castle">Barbara Castle</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Kate_Hollern" title="Kate Hollern">Kate Hollern</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">John Whitaker Straw</div><br /><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1946-08-03</span>) </span>3 August 1946<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 78)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Buckhurst_Hill" title="Buckhurst Hill">Buckhurst Hill</a>, <a href="/wiki/Essex" title="Essex">Essex</a>, <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouses</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Anthea Weston</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1968; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 1977)<wbr /></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Alice_Perkins" title="Alice Perkins">Alice Perkins</a><br /></div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1978)<wbr /></div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">3; including <a href="/wiki/Will_Straw" title="Will Straw">Will</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Brentwood_School,_Essex" title="Brentwood School, Essex">Brentwood School</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/University_of_Leeds" title="University of Leeds">University of Leeds</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Inns_of_Court_School_of_Law" class="mw-redirect" title="Inns of Court School of Law">Inns of Court School of Law</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Signature</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Jack_Straw_signature.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Jack Straw's signature"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b6/Jack_Straw_signature.svg/128px-Jack_Straw_signature.svg.png" decoding="async" width="128" height="62" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b6/Jack_Straw_signature.svg/192px-Jack_Straw_signature.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b6/Jack_Straw_signature.svg/256px-Jack_Straw_signature.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="192" data-file-height="93" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>John Whitaker Straw</b> (born 3 August 1946) is a British politician who served in the Cabinet from 1997 to 2010 under the Labour governments of <a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gordon_Brown" title="Gordon Brown">Gordon Brown</a>. He held two of the traditional <a href="/wiki/Great_Offices_of_State" title="Great Offices of State">Great Offices of State</a>, as <a href="/wiki/Home_Secretary" title="Home Secretary">Home Secretary</a> from 1997 to 2001, and <a href="/wiki/Foreign_Secretary" title="Foreign Secretary">Foreign Secretary</a> from 2001 to 2006 under Blair. He was a <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Member of Parliament</a> (MP) for <a href="/wiki/Blackburn_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Blackburn (UK Parliament constituency)">Blackburn</a> from 1979 to 2015. </p><p>Straw was born in <a href="/wiki/Essex" title="Essex">Essex</a> and privately educated both at <a href="/wiki/Oaklands_School_(Essex)" class="mw-redirect" title="Oaklands School (Essex)">Oaklands School</a>, where his mother worked as a teacher, and later at <a href="/wiki/Brentwood_School,_Essex" title="Brentwood School, Essex">Brentwood School</a>. He studied Law at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Leeds" title="University of Leeds">University of Leeds</a> before having a career as a barrister. He served as an adviser to cabinet minister <a href="/wiki/Barbara_Castle" title="Barbara Castle">Barbara Castle</a> and was selected to succeed her as MP for the <a href="/wiki/Blackburn_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Blackburn (UK Parliament constituency)">Blackburn</a> constituency when she stood down at the <a href="/wiki/1979_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1979 United Kingdom general election">1979 general election</a>. </p><p>From 2007 to 2010, he served as <a href="/wiki/Lord_High_Chancellor_of_Great_Britain" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain">Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Justice" title="Secretary of State for Justice">Secretary of State for Justice</a> throughout the <a href="/wiki/Brown_ministry" title="Brown ministry">Brown ministry</a>. Straw is one of only three individuals to have served in Cabinet continuously during the Labour governments from 1997 to 2010, the others being Brown and <a href="/wiki/Alistair_Darling" title="Alistair Darling">Alistair Darling</a>. After the <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour Party</a> lost power in the <a href="/wiki/2010_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2010 United Kingdom general election">2010 general election</a>, he briefly served as <a href="/wiki/Shadow_Deputy_Prime_Minister" class="mw-redirect" title="Shadow Deputy Prime Minister">Shadow Deputy Prime Minister</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shadow_Secretary_of_State_for_Justice" title="Shadow Secretary of State for Justice">Shadow Secretary of State for Justice</a>, with the intention of standing down from the frontbench after the subsequent <a href="/wiki/2010_Labour_Party_Shadow_Cabinet_election" title="2010 Labour Party Shadow Cabinet election">2010 Labour Party Shadow Cabinet election</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jack_Straw&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Straw was born in <a href="/wiki/Buckhurst_Hill" title="Buckhurst Hill">Buckhurst Hill</a> in Essex, the son of (Walter) Arthur Whitaker Straw—an insurance clerk and salesman and former industrial chemist born at <a href="/wiki/Worsbrough" title="Worsbrough">Worsbrough</a> near <a href="/wiki/Barnsley" title="Barnsley">Barnsley</a>, and raised in <a href="/wiki/Woodford_Green" title="Woodford Green">Woodford Green</a>—and Joan Sylvia Gilbey, a teacher at the independent <a href="/wiki/Oaklands_School_(Essex)" class="mw-redirect" title="Oaklands School (Essex)">Oaklands School</a>, whose father was a <a href="/wiki/Loughton" title="Loughton">Loughton</a> bus mechanic and <a href="/wiki/Shop_steward" class="mw-redirect" title="Shop steward">shop steward</a>, and who was distantly related to the <a href="/wiki/Walter_Gilbey" title="Walter Gilbey">gin-making family</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-who_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-who-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-books.google.com_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-books.google.com-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After his father (with whom, by the time of his death, Straw and his siblings were reconciled) left the family, Straw was raised by his mother on a <a href="/wiki/Council_estate" class="mw-redirect" title="Council estate">council estate</a> in <a href="/wiki/Loughton" title="Loughton">Loughton</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-observer-20120930_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-observer-20120930-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Known to his family as John, he started calling himself Jack while in school, in reference to <a href="/wiki/Jack_Straw_(rebel_leader)" title="Jack Straw (rebel leader)">Jack Straw</a>, one of the leaders of the <a href="/wiki/Peasants%27_Revolt_of_1381" class="mw-redirect" title="Peasants' Revolt of 1381">Peasants' Revolt of 1381</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-guardian-profile_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian-profile-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Straw is of 1/8th Jewish descent (his maternal grandfather's mother came from an Eastern European Jewish family). He himself is a Christian.<sup id="cite_ref-books.google.com_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-books.google.com-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Straw was educated at the school at which his mother taught, Oaklands, and when she left there, at Staples Road Primary School, Loughton, then <a href="/wiki/Brentwood_School,_Essex" title="Brentwood School, Essex">Brentwood School</a> and the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Leeds" title="University of Leeds">University of Leeds</a>. He graduated with a 2:2 degree in Law.<sup id="cite_ref-tenthings_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tenthings-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was alleged by the <a href="/wiki/Foreign_Office" class="mw-redirect" title="Foreign Office">Foreign Office</a> to have disrupted a student trip to <a href="/wiki/Chile" title="Chile">Chile</a> to build a youth centre. They branded him a "troublemaker acting with malice aforethought".<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Straw was then elected president of the <a href="/wiki/Leeds_University_Union" title="Leeds University Union">Leeds University Union</a>, during which time he reluctantly supported a sit-in lasting four days in June 1968. At the 1967 <a href="/wiki/National_Union_of_Students_(United_Kingdom)" title="National Union of Students (United Kingdom)">National Union of Students</a> (NUS) Conference, he unsuccessfully ran for office in the NUS. In April 1968 he stood unsuccessfully for election as NUS President, but was defeated by <a href="/wiki/Trevor_Fisk" title="Trevor Fisk">Trevor Fisk</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, he was elected as NUS President in 1969, holding this post until 1971.<sup id="cite_ref-tenthings_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tenthings-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1971, he was elected as a Labour councillor in the <a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Islington" title="London Borough of Islington">London Borough of Islington</a>, a position he held until 1978.<sup id="cite_ref-guardian-profile_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian-profile-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Straw qualified as a <a href="/wiki/Barrister" title="Barrister">barrister</a> at <a href="/wiki/Inns_of_Court_School_of_Law" class="mw-redirect" title="Inns of Court School of Law">Inns of Court School of Law</a>, practising criminal law for two years from 1972 to 1974. He is a member of <a href="/wiki/Inner_Temple" title="Inner Temple">The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple</a> and remains active in lecturing to fellow members and students. Between 1971 and 1974, Jack Straw was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Inner_London_Education_Authority" title="Inner London Education Authority">Inner London Education Authority</a>, and Deputy Leader from 1973 to 1974. He served as a political adviser to <a href="/wiki/Barbara_Castle" title="Barbara Castle">Barbara Castle</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Department_of_Social_Security" class="mw-redirect" title="Department of Social Security">Department of Social Security</a> from 1974 to 1976, and as an adviser to <a href="/wiki/Peter_Shore" title="Peter Shore">Peter Shore</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_the_Environment" title="Secretary of State for the Environment">Department for the Environment</a> from 1976 to 1977. From 1977 to 1979, Straw worked as a researcher for the <a href="/wiki/Granada_TV" class="mw-redirect" title="Granada TV">Granada TV</a> series <i><a href="/wiki/World_in_Action" title="World in Action">World in Action</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_parliamentary_career_(1979–1997)"><span id="Early_parliamentary_career_.281979.E2.80.931997.29"></span>Early parliamentary career (1979–1997)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jack_Straw&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early parliamentary career (1979–1997)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Straw stood unsuccessfully as the Labour parliamentary candidate for the safe Conservative <a href="/wiki/Tonbridge_and_Malling_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Tonbridge and Malling (UK Parliament constituency)">Tonbridge and Malling</a> constituency in the <a href="/wiki/February_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="February 1974 United Kingdom general election">February 1974 election</a>. In 1977, he was selected to stand for Labour in its safe <a href="/wiki/Blackburn_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Blackburn (UK Parliament constituency)">Blackburn</a> seat at the subsequent general election, after Barbara Castle decided not to seek re-election there. He won the seat at the <a href="/wiki/1979_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1979 United Kingdom general election">1979 general election</a>. </p><p>Straw's first Shadow Cabinet post was as <a href="/wiki/Shadow_Education_Secretary" class="mw-redirect" title="Shadow Education Secretary">Shadow Education Secretary</a> from 1987 to 1992 and he briefly served as <a href="/wiki/Shadow_Secretary_of_State_for_the_Environment" class="mw-redirect" title="Shadow Secretary of State for the Environment">Shadow Secretary of State for the Environment</a> under <a href="/wiki/John_Smith_(Labour_Party_leader)" title="John Smith (Labour Party leader)">John Smith</a> from 1992 to 1994.<sup id="cite_ref-profile_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-profile-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When <a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a> became leader following Smith's death, he chose Straw to succeed him as <a href="/wiki/Shadow_Home_Secretary" title="Shadow Home Secretary">Shadow Home Secretary</a>. Like Blair, Straw believed Labour's electoral chances had been damaged in the past by the party appearing to be "soft on crime", and he developed a reputation as being even more authoritarian than the <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> Home Secretary <a href="/wiki/Michael_Howard" title="Michael Howard">Michael Howard</a>. Straw garnered particular attention for comments condemning "aggressive beggars, winos and squeegee merchants" and calling for a curfew on children.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Home_Secretary_(1997–2001)"><span id="Home_Secretary_.281997.E2.80.932001.29"></span>Home Secretary (1997–2001)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jack_Straw&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Home Secretary (1997–2001)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Appointed as <a href="/wiki/Home_Secretary" title="Home Secretary">Home Secretary</a> after the <a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1997 United Kingdom general election">1997 general election</a>, he brought forward the <a href="/wiki/Regulation_of_Investigatory_Powers_Act_2000" title="Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000">Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000</a>, increased police powers against terrorism and proposed to remove the right to trial by jury in certain cases.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These policies won praise from <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a> who once declared "I would trust Jack Straw's judgement. He is a very fair man." They were deemed excessively authoritarian by his former students' union, which in 2000 banned him from the building—a policy which lapsed in 2003. However, he also incorporated the <a href="/wiki/European_Convention_on_Human_Rights" title="European Convention on Human Rights">European Convention on Human Rights</a> into British law, finalising the <i>de jure</i> abolition of the <a href="/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Capital punishment in the United Kingdom">death penalty</a> with the passage of the <a href="/wiki/Human_Rights_Act_1998" title="Human Rights Act 1998">Human Rights Act 1998</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hillsborough_and_Macpherson_Inquiries">Hillsborough and Macpherson Inquiries</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jack_Straw&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Hillsborough and Macpherson Inquiries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In June 1997, Straw appointed <a href="/wiki/Murray_Stuart-Smith" title="Murray Stuart-Smith">Lord Justice Stuart-Smith</a> to conduct a review of the need for a new public inquiry into the Hillsborough disaster. He indicated to the judge at the outset that in the view of his officials "there was not sufficient evidence to justify a new inquiry". In contrast he had told parliament "I am determined to go as far as I can to ensure that no matter of significance is overlooked and that we do not reach a final conclusion without a full and independent examination of the evidence." He had given the families of the victims full assurance that he intended a thorough examination of the matter.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He apologised in both 2012 and 2016 for the failures of his review.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 31 July 1997, Straw ordered a <a href="/wiki/Public_inquiry" title="Public inquiry">public inquiry</a>, to be conducted by <a href="/wiki/Sir_William_Macpherson" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir William Macpherson">Sir William Macpherson</a> and officially titled "The Inquiry into the Matters Arising from <a href="/wiki/Murder_of_Stephen_Lawrence" title="Murder of Stephen Lawrence">the Death of Stephen Lawrence</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-inquiry_letter_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-inquiry_letter-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its report, produced in February 1999, estimated that it had taken "more than 100,000 pages of reports, statements, and other written or printed documents"<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and concluded that the original <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Police_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="Metropolitan Police Service">Metropolitan Police Service</a> (MPS) investigation had been incompetent and that officers had committed fundamental errors, including: failing to give <a href="/wiki/First_aid" title="First aid">first aid</a> when they reached the scene; failing to follow obvious leads during their investigation; and failing to arrest suspects. The report found that there had been a failure of leadership by senior MPS officers and that recommendations of the 1981 <a href="/wiki/Scarman_Report" title="Scarman Report">Scarman Report</a>, compiled following <a href="/wiki/1981_England_riots" title="1981 England riots">race-related riots</a> in <a href="/wiki/Brixton" title="Brixton">Brixton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Toxteth" title="Toxteth">Toxteth</a>, had been ignored and concluded that the force was "<a href="/wiki/Institutionally_racist" class="mw-redirect" title="Institutionally racist">institutionally racist</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-Lawrence_Inquiry_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawrence_Inquiry-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It also recommended that the <a href="/wiki/Double_jeopardy" title="Double jeopardy">double jeopardy</a> rule should be <a href="/wiki/Repeal" title="Repeal">abrogated</a> in murder cases to allow a retrial upon new and compelling evidence; <a href="/wiki/Criminal_Justice_Act_2003" title="Criminal Justice Act 2003">this became law</a> in 2005. Straw commented in 2012 that ordering the inquiry was "the single most important decision I made as Home Secretary".<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Electoral_reform_and_legislation">Electoral reform and legislation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jack_Straw&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Electoral reform and legislation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As Home Secretary, Straw was also involved in changing the <a href="/wiki/Electoral_system" title="Electoral system">electoral system</a> for the <a href="/wiki/European_Parliament_elections" class="mw-redirect" title="European Parliament elections">European Parliament elections</a> from plurality to <a href="/wiki/Proportional_representation" title="Proportional representation">proportional representation</a>. In doing so, he advocated the use of the <a href="/wiki/D%27Hondt_formula" class="mw-redirect" title="D'Hondt formula">D'Hondt formula</a> on the grounds that it produces the most proportional outcomes. The d'Hondt formula, however, is less proportional than the <a href="/wiki/Sainte-Lagu%C3%AB" class="mw-redirect" title="Sainte-Laguë">Sainte-Laguë</a> formula which was proposed by the <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a>. Straw later apologised to the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a> for his misleading comments,<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but the d'Hondt formula stayed in place. </p><p>In 1998, Straw declined to pardon the <a href="/wiki/Pendle_Witches" class="mw-redirect" title="Pendle Witches">Pendle Witches</a>, hanged in 1612 for committing murder by witchcraft. Defending the decision, his representative stated that it could not be proved that they were innocent of the crime with which they were charged. <sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In March 2000, Jack Straw was responsible for allowing former <a href="/wiki/Chilean_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Chilean people">Chilean</a> dictator <a href="/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet" title="Augusto Pinochet">Augusto Pinochet</a> to return to <a href="/wiki/Chile" title="Chile">Chile</a>. There were requests from several countries for Pinochet to be extradited and face trial for crimes against humanity. Pinochet was placed under house arrest in Britain while appealing the legal authority of the Spanish and British courts to try him, but Straw eventually ordered his release on medical grounds before a trial could begin, and Pinochet returned to Chile.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploitation_scandal" title="Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal">Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal</a> continued at this time, and according to the <i>Telegraph</i>, Straw had highlighted the problem four years prior to the <a href="/wiki/Jay_report" class="mw-redirect" title="Jay report">Jay report</a> being published, saying there was a "specific problem" in some areas of the country where Pakistani men "target vulnerable young white girls". White girls were, he said, viewed as "easy meat".<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Also in 2000, Straw turned down an asylum request from a man fleeing <a href="/wiki/Human_rights_in_Ba%27athist_Iraq" title="Human rights in Ba'athist Iraq">Saddam Hussein's government</a>, stating "we have faith in the integrity of the <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraqi</a> judicial process and that you should have no concerns if you haven't done anything wrong."<sup id="cite_ref-N000100_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-N000100-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He worried, along with <a href="/wiki/William_Hague" title="William Hague">William Hague</a>, about the possibility of English nationalism: "As we move into this new century, people's sense of Englishness will become more articulated and that's partly because of the mirror that devolution provides us with and because we're becoming more European at the same time."<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Foreign_and_Commonwealth_Secretary_(2001–2006)"><span id="Foreign_and_Commonwealth_Secretary_.282001.E2.80.932006.29"></span>Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary (2001–2006)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jack_Straw&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary (2001–2006)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jack_Straw_and_Condoleezza_Rice_press_conference_April_3,_2006.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Jack_Straw_and_Condoleezza_Rice_press_conference_April_3%2C_2006.jpg/250px-Jack_Straw_and_Condoleezza_Rice_press_conference_April_3%2C_2006.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="166" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Jack_Straw_and_Condoleezza_Rice_press_conference_April_3%2C_2006.jpg/375px-Jack_Straw_and_Condoleezza_Rice_press_conference_April_3%2C_2006.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Jack_Straw_and_Condoleezza_Rice_press_conference_April_3%2C_2006.jpg/500px-Jack_Straw_and_Condoleezza_Rice_press_conference_April_3%2C_2006.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="399" /></a><figcaption>Straw appears at a press conference with <a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_State" title="United States Secretary of State">United States Secretary of State</a>, <a href="/wiki/Condoleezza_Rice" title="Condoleezza Rice">Condoleezza Rice</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Straw was appointed Foreign Secretary in 2001 to succeed <a href="/wiki/Robin_Cook" title="Robin Cook">Robin Cook</a>. Within months, Straw was confronted by the <a href="/wiki/September_11_attacks" title="September 11 attacks">September 11 attacks</a> in the United States. He was initially seen as taking a back seat to Tony Blair in Her Majesty's Government's prosecution of the "<a href="/wiki/War_against_terrorism" class="mw-redirect" title="War against terrorism">war against terrorism</a>". In late September 2001, he became the first senior British government minister to visit <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a> since the <a href="/wiki/1979_Revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="1979 Revolution">1979 Revolution</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-obit_-_Independent_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit_-_Independent-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="War_on_Terror">War on Terror</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jack_Straw&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: War on Terror"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Following the <a href="/wiki/September_11_attacks" title="September 11 attacks">9/11 attacks</a>, Straw immediately condemned the attacks and supported the <a href="/wiki/Foreign_policy_of_the_George_W._Bush_administration" title="Foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration">Bush administration’s interventionist policy</a> in the <a href="/wiki/War_on_Terror" class="mw-redirect" title="War on Terror">War on Terror</a>, arguing these actions were necessary to dismantle terrorist networks and prevent future attacks. Straw called for <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO’s</a> invocation of Article 5, which marked the first time the collective defence clause was activated.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following 9/11, Straw was involved in the passage of the <a href="/wiki/Anti-Terrorism,_Crime_and_Security_Act_2001" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001">Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001</a>, which expanded <a href="/wiki/Mass_surveillance" title="Mass surveillance">surveillance</a>, <a href="/wiki/Counter-terrorism" class="mw-redirect" title="Counter-terrorism">counter-terrorism</a> measures and detention of non-British nationals powers at home.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, he later faced scrutiny as reports emerged revealing British intelligence’s involvement in rendition operations and awareness of detainee mistreatment by US authorities. Despite his claims of ignorance about the extent of these actions, these revelations prompted significant controversy and criticism.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2003, the governments of the US and UK agreed a new extradition treaty between them, intended to speed up extradition of terrorist suspects. The provisions of the treaty were enacted in the <a href="/wiki/Extradition_Act_2003" title="Extradition Act 2003">Extradition Act 2003</a>. The treaty later attracted controversy with opponents alleging it to be one-sided: a British request to the US needed to provide a <i>prima facie</i> case against a suspect while a US request to Britain needed only to provide reasonable suspicion for an arrest.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There have been a series of causes célèbres involving the treaty, including the <a href="/wiki/NatWest_Three" title="NatWest Three">NatWest Three</a> who later pleaded guilty to fraud against the US parent company of their employers, and <a href="/wiki/Gary_McKinnon" title="Gary McKinnon">Gary McKinnon</a> who admitted hacking US defence computers. An inquiry into extradition arrangements by retired Judge Sir <a href="/wiki/Scott_Baker_(judge)" title="Scott Baker (judge)">Scott Baker</a> reported in September 2011 that the treaty was not unbalanced and "there is no practical difference between the information submitted to and from the United States".<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="International_affairs">International affairs</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jack_Straw&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: International affairs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2002, Straw became concerned over the ethnic conflict during the <a href="/wiki/2002_Gujarat_riots" title="2002 Gujarat riots">Gujarat riots</a> in western <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>, on which he said violence and human rights abuses were carried out without preventing by local authorities, to which he took a personal position in the Britain’s response by supporting the establishment of an inquiry to investigate the events.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His criticised the cause of the riots, which included blaming the then-<a href="/wiki/Chief_Minister_of_Gujarat" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Minister of Gujarat">Chief Minister</a> and later <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_India" title="Prime Minister of India">Prime Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Narendra_Modi" title="Narendra Modi">Narendra Modi</a> for not preventing such tensions in a BBC documentary, which was later criticised as “biased” against Modi in 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2004, Straw came under criticism for granting asylum to <a href="/wiki/Akhmed_Zakayev" title="Akhmed Zakayev">Akhmed Zakayev</a>, a spokesperson for Chechen separatists, whom the <a href="/wiki/Kremlin" title="Kremlin">Kremlin</a> implicated in the <a href="/wiki/Beslan_school_siege" title="Beslan school siege">Beslan school siege</a>. Russian <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Foreign_Affairs_(Russia)" title="Minister of Foreign Affairs (Russia)">Foreign Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Sergei_Lavrov" class="mw-redirect" title="Sergei Lavrov">Sergei Lavrov</a> accused Britain of undermining the anti-terrorist coalition by allowing Zakayev to live in <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a> and use asylum as a shield. The feud over Zakayev’s extradition intensified, especially after his asylum was granted the previous November, with Russia struggling to present a compelling case. Despite Russian pressure, the British government maintained that extradition required substantial evidence and Straw called Russia’s declaration to strike terrorist bases globally an “understandable” reaction.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a letter to <i><a href="/wiki/The_Independent" title="The Independent">The Independent</a></i> in 2004, Straw claimed that <a href="/wiki/Trotskyism" title="Trotskyism">Trotskyists</a> "can usually now be found in <a href="/wiki/City_of_London" title="City of London">the City</a>, appearing on quiz shows or ranting in certain national newspapers," and recommended <i><a href="/wiki/%22Left-Wing%22_Communism:_An_Infantile_Disorder" title=""Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder">"Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin" title="Vladimir Lenin">Vladimir Lenin</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/2004_Equatorial_Guinea_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempt" class="mw-redirect" title="2004 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état attempt">2004 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état attempt</a>, Straw was personally informed months in advance of the plans for the takeover attempt and failed to accomplish the duty under international law of alerting the country's government. The involvement of British oil companies in the funding of the coup d'état, and the changing of British citizens evacuation plans for <a href="/wiki/Equatorial_Guinea" title="Equatorial Guinea">Equatorial Guinea</a> before the attempt, posed serious challenges for the alleged ignorance of the situation. Later on, British officials and Straw were forced to apologise to <i><a href="/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer">The Observer</a></i> after categorically denying they had prior knowledge of the coup plot.<sup id="cite_ref-GStraw2_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GStraw2-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-GTold_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GTold-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-MP_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MP-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Controversy_over_the_Iraq_War">Controversy over the Iraq War</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jack_Straw&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Controversy over the Iraq War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the run-up to the <a href="/wiki/2005_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2005 United Kingdom general election">2005 general election</a>, Straw faced a potential backlash from his Muslim constituents over the Iraq War – the <a href="/wiki/Muslim_Public_Affairs_Committee_UK" title="Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK">Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK</a> (MPAC) attempted to capitalise on anti-war sentiment with 'operation Muslim vote' in Blackburn. The swing to the second placed Conservatives was less than 2%, much lower than the national average; the Liberal Democrat's increase in vote share (+12.5%) surpassed Labour's loss (−12.1%) . <a href="/wiki/Craig_Murray" title="Craig Murray">Craig Murray</a>, who had been withdrawn as the ambassador to <a href="/wiki/Uzbekistan" title="Uzbekistan">Uzbekistan</a>, stood against his former boss (Straw was then Foreign Secretary) on a platform opposing the use of information gathered under torture in the "War on Terror"; he received a 5% vote share. Straw was re-elected, and following his victory called MPAC an "egregious group", and criticised their tactics during the election. </p><p>At the 2005 Labour Conference, the then Foreign Secretary was heckled by <a href="/wiki/Walter_Wolfgang" title="Walter Wolfgang">Walter Wolfgang</a>, a German Jew who had suffered persecution under the Nazis, and a prominent Labour Party member. At a point when Straw claimed his support for the invasion of Iraq was solely for the purpose of supporting the Iraqi government, 82-year-old Wolfgang was heard to shout "Nonsense", and was forcibly removed from the auditorium by several bouncers. The incident gained considerable publicity, with party chairman <a href="/wiki/Ian_McCartney" title="Ian McCartney">Ian McCartney</a> initially supporting the right to remove hecklers by force. McCartney, PM Tony Blair and other senior Labour members later issued apologies; Wolfgang was later elected to the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Military_intervention_in_Iraq_and_Middle_East_policy">Military intervention in Iraq and Middle East policy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jack_Straw&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Military intervention in Iraq and Middle East policy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 13 October 2005, Straw took questions from a public panel of individuals in a BBC <i><a href="/wiki/Newsnight" title="Newsnight">Newsnight</a></i> television special on the subject of Iraq, addressing widespread public concerns about the <a href="/wiki/Exit_strategy" title="Exit strategy">exit strategy</a> for British troops, the Iraqi insurgency and, inevitably, the moral legitimacy of the war. On several occasions Straw reiterated his position that the decision to invade was in his opinion the right thing to do, but said he did not 'know' for certain that this was the case. He said he understood why public opinion on several matters might differ from his own—a Newsnight/ICM poll showed over 70% of respondents believed the war in Iraq to have increased the likelihood of terrorist attacks in Britain, but Straw said he could not agree based on the information presented to him. </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Straw_Wolfowitz_011024-D-9880W-030.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Straw_Wolfowitz_011024-D-9880W-030.jpg/250px-Straw_Wolfowitz_011024-D-9880W-030.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Straw_Wolfowitz_011024-D-9880W-030.jpg/375px-Straw_Wolfowitz_011024-D-9880W-030.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Straw_Wolfowitz_011024-D-9880W-030.jpg/500px-Straw_Wolfowitz_011024-D-9880W-030.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2992" data-file-height="1993" /></a><figcaption>Straw meets with US Deputy Secretary of Defence <a href="/wiki/Paul_Wolfowitz" title="Paul Wolfowitz">Paul Wolfowitz</a> and UK Ambassador to the US <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Meyer" title="Christopher Meyer">Christopher Meyer</a> in 2001.</figcaption></figure> <p>In February 2006, Straw attracted publicity after he condemned the publication of <a href="/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Mohammad_cartoons_controversy" class="mw-redirect" title="Jyllands-Posten Mohammad cartoons controversy">cartoons picturing Mohammed</a> in the Danish newspaper <i><a href="/wiki/Jyllands-Posten" title="Jyllands-Posten">Jyllands-Posten</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-www_cbsnews_com1_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-www_cbsnews_com1-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Straw voiced concern over the <a href="/wiki/2006_Lebanon_War" title="2006 Lebanon War">2006 Lebanon War</a>. Straw warned that <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a>'s military action "could further destabilise the already fragile Lebanese nation", while noting that "Israel has clear rights to defend itself proportionately".<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In August 2006, it was claimed by <a href="/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg" title="William Rees-Mogg">William Rees-Mogg</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i> that there was evidence that Straw was removed from this post upon the request of the <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush_administration" class="mw-redirect" title="George W. Bush administration">Bush administration</a>, possibly owing to his expressed opposition to bombing <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This would be ironic, as <a href="/wiki/Richard_Ingrams" title="Richard Ingrams">Richard Ingrams</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Independent" title="The Independent">The Independent</a></i> wondered whether Straw's predecessor as Foreign Secretary, <a href="/wiki/Robin_Cook" title="Robin Cook">Robin Cook</a>, was also removed at Bush's request,<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> allowing Straw to become Foreign Secretary in the first place. It has also been alleged that another factor in Straw's dismissal was the large number of Muslims amongst his Blackburn constituents, supposedly considered a cause for concern by the US.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Iraq_Inquiry">Iraq Inquiry</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jack_Straw&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Iraq Inquiry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Straw gave evidence to the <a href="/wiki/Iraq_Inquiry" title="Iraq Inquiry">Iraq Inquiry</a> on 21 January 2010, making him the second member of Tony Blair's cabinet to do so. He told the inquiry that the decision to go to war in Iraq had "haunted him" and that it was the "most difficult decision" of his life.<sup id="cite_ref-Iraq_Inquiry_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Iraq_Inquiry-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also said that he could have stopped the invasion, had he wanted to.<sup id="cite_ref-Stopped_war_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stopped_war-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In July 2017, former Iraqi general Abdulwaheed al-Rabbat launched a private war crimes prosecution, in the High Court in London, asking for Straw, Tony Blair and former attorney general <a href="/wiki/Peter_Goldsmith,_Baron_Goldsmith" title="Peter Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith">Lord Goldsmith</a> to be prosecuted for "the crime of aggression" for their role in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The High Court ruled that, although the crime of aggression was recognised in international law, it was not an offence under UK law, and, therefore, the prosecution could not proceed.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rendition_and_torture_allegations">Rendition and torture allegations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jack_Straw&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Rendition and torture allegations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Despite repeated denials about his complicity in <a href="/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition" title="Extraordinary rendition">extraordinary rendition</a>—he once dismissed the suggestion of UK involvement in the practice as a "conspiracy theory"—Straw had been dogged for years over his alleged leading role in it, with specific accusations about the case of Libyan politician <a href="/wiki/Abdel_Hakim_Belhadj" class="mw-redirect" title="Abdel Hakim Belhadj">Abdel Hakim Belhadj</a> arising in April 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-RNT_11Apr2012_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RNT_11Apr2012-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ToWh_16Apr2012_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ToWh_16Apr2012-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In October 2012, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i> reported on the filing of court papers, which alleged that MI6 alerted <a href="/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi" title="Muammar Gaddafi">Muammar Gaddafi</a>'s intelligence services to the whereabouts of dissidents, co-operated in their rendition, sent officers and detailed questions to assist in their interrogation, and that Straw attempted to conceal this from MPs.<sup id="cite_ref-RNT_10Oct2012_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RNT_10Oct2012-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The high court in London agreed in January 2017, against the wishes of the <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> government, to hear a judicial review against the decision to not prosecute Straw and former head of MI6 <a href="/wiki/Mark_Allen_(businessman)" title="Mark Allen (businessman)">Mark Allen</a> in the case of the abduction and alleged torture of Belhadj and his pregnant wife who were abducted in Bangkok in 2004 after a tip-off from <a href="/wiki/MI6" title="MI6">MI6</a> and were held for seven years in Tripoli where, Belhaj alleges, he and his wife were repeatedly tortured.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Crown_Prosecution_Service" title="Crown Prosecution Service">Crown Prosecution Service</a> had decided in June 2016 to not prosecute any members of the UK government citing a "lack of evidence" and the challenge to that decision resulted in the decision to allow a judicial review.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After a successful action by the <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> government the high court announced in July 2017 that the judicial review would be held in private and that evidence relating to the defence by the government and security services would neither be made available to Belhaj or his legal team nor made public. Criticising the decision Belhaj was quoted as saying that "I went through a secret trial once before, in Gaddafi's Libya. It took about a half hour, and I never saw any of the evidence against me. Later a guard came to my cell and tossed in a red jumpsuit – that was how I found out that the secret court had sentenced me to die" and continued "what kind of a trial will it be if we put in a mountain of evidence and government officials can simply refuse to answer us". In response, Straw stated that he was opposed to <a href="/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition" title="Extraordinary rendition">extraordinary rendition</a> and had not been complicit in it. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Leader_of_the_House_of_Commons_(2006–2007)"><span id="Leader_of_the_House_of_Commons_.282006.E2.80.932007.29"></span>Leader of the House of Commons (2006–2007)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jack_Straw&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Leader of the House of Commons (2006–2007)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jack_Straw_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Jack_Straw_2.jpg/220px-Jack_Straw_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Jack_Straw_2.jpg/330px-Jack_Straw_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Jack_Straw_2.jpg/440px-Jack_Straw_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1800" data-file-height="2400" /></a><figcaption>Official portrait, 2007</figcaption></figure> <p>After the Labour Party suffered major defeats in local elections on 4 May 2006, losing 317 seats in balloting for 176 councils, Tony Blair acted the following day with a <a href="/wiki/2006_British_cabinet_reshuffle" title="2006 British cabinet reshuffle">major reshuffle</a> of his ministers during which he moved Straw from Foreign Secretary to <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_House_of_Commons" title="Leader of the House of Commons">Leader of the House of Commons</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lord_Privy_Seal" title="Lord Privy Seal">Lord Privy Seal</a>. Straw had apparently requested a break from high ministerial office after serving in two of the four great departments of state for nearly ten years. To lessen the apparent demotion, Blair gave Straw responsibility for House of Lords reform and party funding, issues which had been part of the portfolio of the <a href="/wiki/Department_for_Constitutional_Affairs" title="Department for Constitutional Affairs">Department for Constitutional Affairs</a>. In addition, Straw was given the chairmanship of the Constitutional Affairs cabinet committee where he was responsible for attempting to force through a flat-fee charge for Freedom of Information requests.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 25 March 2007, Straw announced he was to run <a href="/wiki/Gordon_Brown" title="Gordon Brown">Gordon Brown</a>'s campaign for the Labour leadership. This was the first official confirmation the Chancellor would stand.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2006_debate_over_veils">2006 debate over veils</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jack_Straw&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: 2006 debate over veils"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/British_debate_over_veils" title="British debate over veils">British debate over veils</a></div> <p>In October 2006, Straw attracted controversy by suggesting to a local newspaper, <i>The Lancashire Evening Telegraph</i> (now <i>The Lancashire Telegraph</i>), that <a href="/wiki/Women_in_Islam" title="Women in Islam">Muslim women</a> who wear veils that cover their faces (the <i><a href="/wiki/Niqab" class="mw-redirect" title="Niqab">niqab</a></i>) can inhibit inter-community relations, though he denied the issue was raised for political gain, stating that he had raised it in private circles in the past and it had never progressed beyond discussions. Although he did not support a law banning a woman's right to choose to wear the veil, he would like them to abandon it altogether. </p><p>Asked whether he would prefer veils to be abolished completely, Straw said: "Yes. It needs to be made clear I am not talking about being prescriptive but with all the caveats, yes, I would rather."<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He said that he had asked women visiting his <a href="/wiki/Surgery_(politics)" title="Surgery (politics)">constituency surgeries</a> to consider uncovering their noses and mouths in order to allow better communication. He claimed that no women had ever chosen to wear a full veil after this request.<sup id="cite_ref-www_blackburncitizen_co_uk3_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-www_blackburncitizen_co_uk3-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-www_gm_tv4_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-www_gm_tv4-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Straw's comments kicked off a wide-ranging and sometimes harshly worded debate within <a href="/wiki/British_politics" class="mw-redirect" title="British politics">British politics</a> and the media; Straw was supported by some establishment figures and castigated by others, including Muslim groups. There is <a href="/wiki/Hijab#Dress_code" title="Hijab">an ongoing debate</a> within the <a href="/wiki/Muslim_community" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim community">Muslim community</a> whether the <a href="/wiki/Qur%27an" class="mw-redirect" title="Qur'an">Qur'an</a> and <i><a href="/wiki/Hadith" title="Hadith">hadith</a></i> (traditions of <a href="/wiki/Muhammad" title="Muhammad">Muhammad</a>) require the use of the full face veil.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Straw apologised for these comments regarding the veil on 26 April 2010 at a private hustings organised by <a href="/wiki/Engage_(organization)" class="mw-redirect" title="Engage (organization)">Engage</a> in the buildup to the <a href="/wiki/2010_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2010 United Kingdom general election">2010 United Kingdom general election</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Lord_Chancellor_and_Secretary_of_State_for_Justice_(2007–2010)"><span id="Lord_Chancellor_and_Secretary_of_State_for_Justice_.282007.E2.80.932010.29"></span>Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice (2007–2010)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jack_Straw&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice (2007–2010)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Canvassing.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Canvassing.jpg/220px-Canvassing.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Canvassing.jpg/330px-Canvassing.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Canvassing.jpg/440px-Canvassing.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption>Straw <a href="/wiki/Canvassing" title="Canvassing">canvassing</a> with local councillors in <a href="/wiki/Blackburn" title="Blackburn">Blackburn</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Straw was appointed <a href="/wiki/Lord_High_Chancellor_of_Great_Britain" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain">Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain</a> and <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Justice" title="Secretary of State for Justice">Secretary of State for Justice</a> on the first full day of Gordon Brown's ministry, 28 June 2007. He was the first Lord Chancellor since the sixteenth century to serve in the role whilst a member of the House of Commons. His appointment meant that he continued to be a major figure in the Labour Government. Only Straw, Brown and <a href="/wiki/Alistair_Darling" title="Alistair Darling">Alistair Darling</a> served in the cabinet continuously during Labour's 13-year government from 1997 to 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In February 2009, Straw used his authority as <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Justice" title="Secretary of State for Justice">Secretary of State for Justice</a> to veto publication of government documents requested under the <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act_2000" title="Freedom of Information Act 2000">Freedom of Information Act</a>: in particular, those pertaining to early government meetings held in the run-up to the Iraq war in 2003.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Straw represented the government on a <a href="/wiki/Question_Time_British_National_Party_controversy" title="Question Time British National Party controversy">controversial edition of <i>Question Time</i></a> on 22 October 2009, against <a href="/wiki/British_National_Party" title="British National Party">British National Party</a> leader <a href="/wiki/Nick_Griffin" title="Nick Griffin">Nick Griffin</a> on his first ever appearance. Griffin's first comment was to attack Straw's father's wartime record, to general disdain. As Griffin claimed that European laws prevented him from explaining his stance on <a href="/wiki/Holocaust_denial" title="Holocaust denial">holocaust denial</a> Straw later offered his personal assurance as Secretary of State for Justice, which Griffin declined. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ambitions_for_premiership">Ambitions for premiership</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jack_Straw&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Ambitions for premiership"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Andrew Thorpe-Apps, writing in <i>the Backbencher</i>, states that Straw knew he would be defeated by Gordon Brown in a leadership contest as Brown was 'consumed by this one ambition'.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Expenses_claims">Expenses claims</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jack_Straw&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Expenses claims"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_expenses_claims_in_the_United_Kingdom_parliamentary_expenses_scandal" title="List of expenses claims in the United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal">List of expenses claims in the United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal</a></div> <p>Two months after learning that MPs' expenses were to be made public, Straw admitted to the fees office to using expenses to claim a full council tax bill despite only paying a 50% rate. Straw said he had acted in good faith and had repaid the erroneous claims once he was aware that MPs' expenses were to be made public. Included with the admission was a cheque for the amount he believed he had overcharged, which itself turned out to have been miscalculated leading Straw to send a further cheque with a note saying "accountancy does not appear to be my strongest suit".<sup id="cite_ref-bbckeydetails_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbckeydetails-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Retirement_from_front-bench_politics_(2010–present)"><span id="Retirement_from_front-bench_politics_.282010.E2.80.93present.29"></span>Retirement from front-bench politics (2010–present)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jack_Straw&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Retirement from front-bench politics (2010–present)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In August 2010, Straw announced his plans to quit his role as Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and move to the backbenches, citing the need for a 'fresh start' for the Labour Party under a new leader.<sup id="cite_ref-BBC-quit-frontbench_78-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC-quit-frontbench-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Straw has since described Gordon Brown's leadership as a "tragedy".<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In December 2010, ahead of the <a href="/wiki/2011_United_Kingdom_Alternative_Vote_referendum" title="2011 United Kingdom Alternative Vote referendum">2011 Alternative Vote Referendum</a>, Straw was a signatory to a letter to <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i> arguing in favour of the <a href="/wiki/Alternative_vote" class="mw-redirect" title="Alternative vote">alternative vote</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In January 2011, Straw provoked controversy with comments made on <i><a href="/wiki/Newsnight" title="Newsnight">Newsnight</a></i> about Pakistani men.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He said "there is a specific problem which involves Pakistani heritage men ... who target vulnerable young white girls."<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His comments came after two men of Pakistani origin were convicted of rape in <a href="/wiki/Derby" title="Derby">Derby</a>. </p><p>In April 2011, Straw was appointed as a consultant to <a href="/wiki/Man_Group" title="Man Group">ED&F Man Holdings Ltd</a>, a British company based in London specialising in the production and trading of commodities including sugar, molasses, animal feed, tropical oils, biofuels, coffee and financial services. Commenting on his appointment to ED&F Man on a salary of £30,000 per annum, Straw said, "There are 168 hours in the week, and I will work in <a href="/wiki/Blackburn" title="Blackburn">Blackburn</a> for a least 60 and maybe sleep for 50. Providing there's no conflict, I have long taken the view that I am not against people doing other things. I had two jobs as a minister. I think it's really important that politicians are involved with the outside world."<sup id="cite_ref-Blackburn_MP_Jack_Straw_takes_£30k_consultancy_role_83-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Blackburn_MP_Jack_Straw_takes_£30k_consultancy_role-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In late 2011, Straw was appointed to the role of visiting professor to <a href="/wiki/University_College_London" title="University College London">University College London</a> School of Public Policy. He later argued for the abolition of the <a href="/wiki/European_Parliament" title="European Parliament">European Parliament</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 25 October 2013, Straw announced that he would stand down as an MP at the next election.<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Allegation_of_antisemitism">Allegation of antisemitism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jack_Straw&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Allegation of antisemitism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2013, at a round-table event of the Global Diplomatic Forum at the UK's House of Commons, Straw (who has partial Jewish heritage)<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> noted, according to <a href="/wiki/Einat_Wilf" title="Einat Wilf">Einat Wilf</a>, a former member of Israel's <a href="/wiki/Knesset" title="Knesset">Knesset</a> who was one of the other panelists, that among the main obstacles to peace in the Middle East was the amount of money available to Jewish organisations and AIPAC in the US, which was used to control US policy in the region, an opinion common among opponents of Israel. Another obstacle was Germany's "obsession" with defending Israel.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-timesofisrael.com_88-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-timesofisrael.com-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wilf stated: "It was appalling to listen to Britain's former foreign secretary. His remarks reflect prejudice of the worst kind... I thought British diplomats, including former ones, were still capable of a measure of rational thought."<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wilf said that she was shocked to hear Straw's comments and that she responded in the debate by stressing her view that the origin and cause of the conflict was the Palestinian and Arab refusal to accept Israel's legitimacy as a sovereign Jewish state.<sup id="cite_ref-timesofisrael.com_88-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-timesofisrael.com-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland said that Straw's comments "echo some of the oldest and ugliest prejudices about 'Jewish power' and go far beyond mere criticism of Israel."<sup id="cite_ref-jpost.com_90-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jpost.com-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Speaking to <i><a href="/wiki/The_Jerusalem_Post" title="The Jerusalem Post">The Jerusalem Post</a></i>, Straw strongly denied claims that his criticism was antisemitic.<sup id="cite_ref-jpost.com_90-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jpost.com-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a statement to <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times_of_Israel" title="The Times of Israel">The Times of Israel</a></i>, Straw did not relate to whether he had said what Wilf alleged he said, but did say that there was no justification in any of his remarks for claims that he was being antisemitic. He pointed out that Wilf did not claim that he had embarked on an antisemitic diatribe, as had been claimed in many of the media reports.<sup id="cite_ref-timesofisrael.com_88-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-timesofisrael.com-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He wrote a statement to the Israeli newspaper <i><a href="/wiki/Haaretz" title="Haaretz">Haaretz</a></i>, which was described as follows:<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <blockquote><p>Straw wrote that he had voiced concerns at the seminar over Israel's "settlement-building ... on Palestinian land (in East Jerusalem, and the Occupied Territories). This is illegal, as the British Foreign Secretary William Hague has observed and in those terms. I said that this amounted to 'theft' of Palestinians' land." In addition, he said that he advocated at the seminar "a tougher stand on this (and on the related issue of goods exported from the Occupied Territories by Israelis) by the European Union." </p><p>He said that he had pointed out in the past that one of the obstacles to an EU policy on this had been "the attitude of Germany, who for understandable reasons have been reluctant to be out of line with the Government of Israel." </p><p>Responding to the claim by Wilf that he referred to "Jewish money", Straw said that he had spoken at the seminar of the "Israeli lobby" and "the problems which faced President Obama from AIPAC" and spoke of the way AIPAC spends large sums of money supporting pro-Israeli candidates in American elections. </p> </blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cash_for_access">Cash for access</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jack_Straw&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Cash for access"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In February 2015, Straw was secretly recorded by journalists from <i><a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph" title="The Daily Telegraph">The Daily Telegraph</a></i> and <a href="/wiki/Channel_4_News" title="Channel 4 News">Channel 4 News</a>, who posed as representatives of a fictitious Chinese company that wanted to set up an advisory council. Straw was recorded describing how he operated "under the radar" and had used his influence to change EU rules on behalf of a firm which paid him £60,000 a year.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Straw voluntarily withdrew from the Parliamentary Labour Party (but remained a member of the party itself) in February 2015 due to allegations from Channel 4 and <i>The Daily Telegraph</i>. </p><p>Straw denied any wrongdoing or any breach of the parliamentary rules and voluntarily referred himself to the <a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_Commissioner_for_Standards" title="Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards">Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards</a> and withdrew from the Parliamentary Labour Party pending the Commissioner's inquiry.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He told the BBC, "[I have] acted with complete probity and integrity throughout my parliamentary career".<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was exonerated by the Commissioner in September 2015 after a detailed investigation.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc.co.uk_95-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc.co.uk-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-publications.parliament.uk_96-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-publications.parliament.uk-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Commissioner for Standards dismissed all allegations that he had brought the House of Commons into disrepute, saying that "I have seen nothing which suggests that [Mr Straw's] conduct would have merited criticism if the approach made by PMR [the bogus company established by Channel 4] had been genuine."<sup id="cite_ref-publications.parliament.uk_96-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-publications.parliament.uk-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She said that "the evidence I have seen supports Mr Straw's assertions that he "neither exaggerated nor boasted" in what he said to the reporters."<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Commissioner was sharply critical of Channel 4 and <i>The Daily Telegraph</i>, saying "if in their coverage of this story, the reporters for Channel 4's <i>Dispatches</i>, and <i>The Daily Telegraph</i> had accurately reported what was said by these two members [the other was Sir <a href="/wiki/Malcolm_Rifkind" title="Malcolm Rifkind">Malcolm Rifkind</a>] in their interviews and measured their words against the rules of the House it would have been possible to avoid the damage that has been done to the lives of these two individuals and those around them and to the reputation of the House."<sup id="cite_ref-bbc.co.uk_95-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc.co.uk-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-publications.parliament.uk_96-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-publications.parliament.uk-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Media regulator <a href="/wiki/Ofcom" title="Ofcom">Ofcom</a>, however, took a different view; it judged in December 2015 that the journalists had investigated a matter of significant public interest and that their presentation had been fair.<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jack_Straw&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Straw's first marriage, in 1968, to teacher Anthea Weston, ended in divorce in 1977. They had a daughter, Rachel, born on 24 February 1976, who died after five days because of a heart defect. On 10 November 1978, he married <a href="/wiki/Alice_Perkins" title="Alice Perkins">Alice Perkins</a>, a senior civil servant.<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2006, Straw's wife joined the board of the country's largest airports operator <a href="/wiki/BAA_plc" class="mw-redirect" title="BAA plc">BAA</a>, shortly before it was taken over by the Spanish firm <a href="/wiki/Ferrovial" title="Ferrovial">Ferrovial</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Perkins was Chair of the Post Office during a critical period of the <a href="/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal" title="British Post Office scandal">British Post Office scandal</a>, chairing a Post Office sub-committee, codenamed "Project Sparrow", which has been accused of sacking forensic accountants who had found bugs in the Horizon IT system and seeking to exclude victims from compensation.<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The couple have two adult children, <a href="/wiki/Will_Straw" title="Will Straw">Will</a> and Charlotte.<sup id="cite_ref-guardian-profile_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian-profile-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Straw supports his local football team <a href="/wiki/Blackburn_Rovers" class="mw-redirect" title="Blackburn Rovers">Blackburn Rovers</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was made an honorary vice-president of the club in 1998 by <a href="/wiki/Jack_Walker" title="Jack Walker">Jack Walker</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In October 2015, he was given the <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_the_Borough" class="mw-redirect" title="Freedom of the Borough">Freedom of the Borough</a> of <a href="/wiki/Blackburn_with_Darwen" title="Blackburn with Darwen">Blackburn with Darwen</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A motion of <a href="/wiki/Leeds_University_Union" title="Leeds University Union">Leeds University Union Council</a> in 2000 revoked Jack Straw's life membership of the Union and removed his name from the Presidents' Board, citing his support for "<a href="/wiki/Immigration_and_Asylum_Act_1999" title="Immigration and Asylum Act 1999">the asylum and immigration bill</a>" and for limits to trial by jury and legal aid.<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2007, the Union Council reinstated his life membership and place on the Presidents' Board.<sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publications">Publications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jack_Straw&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Publications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Autobiography">Autobiography</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jack_Straw&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Autobiography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon 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.citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFStraw2012" class="citation book cs1">Straw, Jack (2012). <i>Last Man Standing: Memoirs of a Political Survivor</i>. Macmillan. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1447222750" title="Special:BookSources/978-1447222750"><bdi>978-1447222750</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Last+Man+Standing%3A+Memoirs+of+a+Political+Survivor&rft.pub=Macmillan&rft.date=2012&rft.isbn=978-1447222750&rft.aulast=Straw&rft.aufirst=Jack&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJack+Straw" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Author_or_co-author">Author or co-author</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jack_Straw&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Author or co-author"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>The English Job: Understanding Iran and Why It Distrusts Britain</i> (2019) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1785903991" title="Special:BookSources/978-1785903991">978-1785903991</a></li> <li><i>Implementation of the Human Rights Act 1998: Minutes of Evidence, Wednesday 14 March 2001</i> (2001) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-10-442701-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-10-442701-9">0-10-442701-9</a></li> <li><i>Making Prisons Work: Prison Reform Trust Annual Lecture</i> (1998) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-946209-44-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-946209-44-8">0-946209-44-8</a></li> <li><i>Future of Policing and Criminal Justice (Institute of Police & Criminological Studies Occasional Paper S.)</i> (1996) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-86137-087-3" title="Special:BookSources/1-86137-087-3">1-86137-087-3</a></li> <li><i>Policy and Ideology</i> (1993) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-9521163-0-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-9521163-0-8">0-9521163-0-8</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reports">Reports</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jack_Straw&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Reports"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Reform of the Race Relations Act 1976: Proposals for Change Submitted by the Commission for Racial Equality to the Rt Hon Jack Straw MP, Secretary of State for the Home Department, on 30 April 1998</i> (1998) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-85442-210-3" title="Special:BookSources/1-85442-210-3">1-85442-210-3</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Explanatory_notes">Explanatory notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jack_Straw&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Explanatory notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">As Senior Member of the Shadow Cabinet.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">As Shadow Secretary of State for Education.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Resigned whip 23 February 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-profile_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-profile-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jack_Straw&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-profile-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-profile_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-profile_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://members.parliament.uk/member/463/career">Profile at UK Parliament website</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-who-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-who_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Who's Who 2008, <a href="/wiki/A_%26_C_Black" title="A & C Black">A & C Black</a>, 2008; online edn, <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" title="Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>, December 2007</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-books.google.com-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-books.google.com_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-books.google.com_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=7szDhMKFRxcC&pg=PT26">Last Man Standing: Memoirs of a Political Survivor</a></i>, Jack Straw, 2012</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">General Register Office Birth Index 1946 Q3 Epping 5a 178</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-observer-20120930-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-observer-20120930_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRachel_Cooke2012" class="citation news cs1">Rachel Cooke (30 September 2012). <a 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London. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131024151314/http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/sep/30/jack-straw-memoirs-interview">Archived</a> from the original on 24 October 2013<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">28 February</span> 2013</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Observer&rft.atitle=Jack+Straw%3A+%27I+didn%27t+have+a+nervous+breakdown%2C+but+I+was+close+to+one%27&rft.date=2012-09-30&rft.au=Rachel+Cooke&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fpolitics%2F2012%2Fsep%2F30%2Fjack-straw-memoirs-interview&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJack+Straw" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-guardian-profile-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-guardian-profile_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-guardian-profile_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-guardian-profile_9-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHughes,_Colin1999" class="citation news cs1">Hughes, Colin (24 July 1999). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/1999/jul/24/labour.jackstraw">"Jack Straw: Jack of all tirades"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131221073528/http://www.theguardian.com/politics/1999/jul/24/labour.jackstraw">Archived</a> from the original on 21 December 2013<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">17 January</span> 2012</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=Jack+Straw%3A+Jack+of+all+tirades&rft.date=1999-07-24&rft.au=Hughes%2C+Colin&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fpolitics%2F1999%2Fjul%2F24%2Flabour.jackstraw&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJack+Straw" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thejc.com/lifestyle/how-jewish-is/how-jewish-jack-straw">How Jewish is Jack Straw?</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120204061247/http://www.thejc.com/lifestyle/how-jewish-is/how-jewish-jack-straw">Archived</a> 4 February 2012 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a><i><a href="/wiki/The_Jewish_Chronicle" title="The Jewish Chronicle">The Jewish Chronicle</a></i>, 31 July 2008</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-tenthings-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-tenthings_11-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-tenthings_11-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation magazine cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://totalpolitics.com/articles/news/ten-things-you-didnt-know-about-jack-straw">"Ten things you didn't know about Jack Straw"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Total_Politics" title="Total Politics">Total Politics</a></i>. 3 August 2011. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160303232735/http://www.totalpolitics.com/print/176162/ten-things-you-didnand39t-know-about-jack-straw.thtml">Archived</a> from the original on 3 March 2016.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Total+Politics&rft.atitle=Ten+things+you+didn%27t+know+about+Jack+Straw&rft.date=2011-08-03&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Ftotalpolitics.com%2Farticles%2Fnews%2Ften-things-you-didnt-know-about-jack-straw&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJack+Straw" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSanders2006" class="citation news cs1">Sanders, Mark (30 July 2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5228770.stm">"Straw comments reflect Cabinet unease"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/BBC_News" title="BBC News">BBC News</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">5 January</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=BBC+News&rft.atitle=Straw+comments+reflect+Cabinet+unease&rft.date=2006-07-30&rft.aulast=Sanders&rft.aufirst=Mark&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%2F1%2Fhi%2Fuk_politics%2F5228770.stm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJack+Straw" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sir <a href="/wiki/Patrick_Wall" title="Patrick Wall">Patrick Wall</a>, <i>Student Power</i> (London: <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Monday_Club" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative Monday Club">Conservative Monday Club</a>, 1969), p. 8</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.itv.com/news/update/2013-10-26/key-points-jack-straws-career-in-politics/">"Key points: Jack Straw's career in politics"</a>. <a href="/wiki/ITV_News" title="ITV News">ITV News</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141129024227/http://www.itv.com/news/update/2013-10-26/key-points-jack-straws-career-in-politics/">Archived</a> from the original on 29 November 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">14 November</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Key+points%3A+Jack+Straw%27s+career+in+politics&rft.pub=ITV+News&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.itv.com%2Fnews%2Fupdate%2F2013-10-26%2Fkey-points-jack-straws-career-in-politics%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJack+Straw" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMills,_Heather1995" class="citation news cs1">Mills, Heather (5 September 1995). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/straw-sets-agenda-for-reclaiming-the-streets-1599506.html">"Straw sets agenda for reclaiming the streets"</a>. <i>The Independent</i>. London. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160305014939/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/straw-sets-agenda-for-reclaiming-the-streets-1599506.html">Archived</a> from the original on 5 March 2016<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">17 June</span> 2012</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Independent&rft.atitle=Straw+sets+agenda+for+reclaiming+the+streets&rft.date=1995-09-05&rft.au=Mills%2C+Heather&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fstraw-sets-agenda-for-reclaiming-the-streets-1599506.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJack+Straw" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/527721.stm">"Straw on trial over jury reform"</a>. <i>BBC News</i>. 19 November 1999. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070505153424/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/527721.stm">Archived</a> from the original on 5 May 2007<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">5 May</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=BBC+News&rft.atitle=Straw+on+trial+over+jury+reform&rft.date=1999-11-19&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%2F1%2Fhi%2Fuk_politics%2F527721.stm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJack+Straw" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The position of Secretary of State for Justice would not <a href="/wiki/Third_Blair_ministry" title="Third Blair ministry">come into existence until 2007</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ios-hillsborough-exclusive-revealed-the-critical-role-of-jack-straw-8165990.html">"IoS Hillsborough exclusive: Revealed - the critical role of Jack Straw"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Independent.co.uk" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent.co.uk">Independent.co.uk</a></i>. 23 September 2012. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180524015342/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ios-hillsborough-exclusive-revealed-the-critical-role-of-jack-straw-8165990.html">Archived</a> from the original on 24 May 2018<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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<li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Mandelson" title="Peter Mandelson">Lord Mandelson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Miliband" title="David Miliband">David Miliband</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ed_Miliband" title="Ed Miliband">Ed Miliband</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Murphy" title="Jim Murphy">Jim Murphy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Murphy,_Baron_Murphy_of_Torfaen" title="Paul Murphy, Baron Murphy of Torfaen">Paul Murphy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Purnell" title="James Purnell">James Purnell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janet_Royall,_Baroness_Royall_of_Blaisdon" title="Janet Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon">Baroness Royall of Blaisdon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacqui_Smith" title="Jacqui Smith">Jacqui Smith</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Jack Straw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shaun_Woodward" title="Shaun Woodward">Shaun Woodward</a></li></ul></div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="3" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span 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href="/wiki/Mark_Malloch_Brown,_Baron_Malloch-Brown" class="mw-redirect" title="Mark Malloch Brown, Baron Malloch-Brown">Lord Malloch-Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pat_McFadden" title="Pat McFadden">Pat McFadden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tony_McNulty" title="Tony McNulty">Tony McNulty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patricia_Scotland" title="Patricia Scotland">Baroness Scotland of Asthal</a></li> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Attended while on agenda</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0;text-align:center;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Beverley_Hughes" title="Beverley Hughes">Beverley Hughes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sadiq_Khan" title="Sadiq Khan">Sadiq Khan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dawn_Primarolo" title="Dawn Primarolo">Dawn Primarolo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rosie_Winterton" title="Rosie Winterton">Rosie Winterton</a></li></ul> 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Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper">Cowper</a></li> <li><i>in commission</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simon_Harcourt,_1st_Viscount_Harcourt" title="Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt">Harcourt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Cowper,_1st_Earl_Cowper" title="William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper">Cowper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Parker,_1st_Earl_of_Macclesfield" title="Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield">Macclesfield</a></li> <li><i>in commission</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_King,_1st_Baron_King" title="Peter King, 1st Baron King">King</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Talbot,_1st_Baron_Talbot" title="Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot">Talbot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Yorke,_1st_Earl_of_Hardwicke" title="Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke">Hardwicke</a></li> <li><i>in commission</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Henley,_1st_Earl_of_Northington" title="Robert Henley, 1st Earl of Northington">Northington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Pratt,_1st_Earl_Camden" title="Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden">Pratt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Yorke" title="Charles Yorke">Yorke</a></li> <li><i>in commission</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Bathurst,_2nd_Earl_Bathurst" title="Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst">Bathurst</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Thurlow,_1st_Baron_Thurlow" title="Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow">Thurlow</a></li> <li><i>in commission</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Thurlow,_1st_Baron_Thurlow" title="Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow">Thurlow</a></li> <li><i>In Commission <a href="/wiki/James_Eyre_(judge)" title="James Eyre (judge)">James Eyre</a>/<a href="/wiki/William_Henry_Ashurst_(judge)" title="William Henry Ashurst (judge)">William Henry Ashurst</a>/<a href="/wiki/Beaumont_Hotham,_2nd_Baron_Hotham" title="Beaumont Hotham, 2nd Baron Hotham">Sir Beaumont Hotham</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Wedderburn,_1st_Earl_of_Rosslyn" title="Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn">Loughborough</a></li></ul> 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class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Speakers of the House of Lords<br />Heads of the Judiciary in England and Wales<br />Members of the Cabinet</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Wedderburn,_1st_Earl_of_Rosslyn" title="Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn">Loughborough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Scott,_1st_Earl_of_Eldon" title="John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon">Eldon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Erskine,_1st_Baron_Erskine" title="Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine">Erskine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Scott,_1st_Earl_of_Eldon" title="John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon">Eldon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Copley,_1st_Baron_Lyndhurst" title="John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst">Lyndhurst</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Brougham,_1st_Baron_Brougham_and_Vaux" title="Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux">Brougham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Copley,_1st_Baron_Lyndhurst" title="John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst">Lyndhurst</a></li> <li><i>In Commission: <a href="/wiki/Charles_Pepys,_1st_Earl_of_Cottenham" title="Charles Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham">Pepys</a>/<a href="/wiki/Lancelot_Shadwell" title="Lancelot Shadwell">Shadwell</a>/<a href="/wiki/John_Bosanquet" title="John Bosanquet">Bosanquet</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Pepys,_1st_Earl_of_Cottenham" title="Charles Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham">Cottenham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Copley,_1st_Baron_Lyndhurst" title="John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst">Lyndhurst</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Pepys,_1st_Earl_of_Cottenham" title="Charles Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham">Cottenham</a></li> <li><i>In Commission: <a href="/wiki/Henry_Bickersteth,_1st_Baron_Langdale" title="Henry Bickersteth, 1st Baron Langdale">Langdale</a>/<a href="/wiki/Lancelot_Shadwell" title="Lancelot Shadwell">Shadwell</a>/<a href="/wiki/Robert_Rolfe,_1st_Baron_Cranworth" title="Robert Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth">Role</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Wilde,_1st_Baron_Truro" title="Thomas Wilde, 1st Baron Truro">Truro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Sugden,_1st_Baron_St_Leonards" title="Edward Sugden, 1st Baron St Leonards">St Leonards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Rolfe,_1st_Baron_Cranworth" title="Robert Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth">Cranworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederic_Thesiger,_1st_Baron_Chelmsford" title="Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford">Chelmsford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Campbell,_1st_Baron_Campbell" title="John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell">Campbell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Bethell,_1st_Baron_Westbury" title="Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury">Westbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Rolfe,_1st_Baron_Cranworth" title="Robert Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth">Cranworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederic_Thesiger,_1st_Baron_Chelmsford" title="Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford">Chelmsford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Cairns,_1st_Earl_Cairns" title="Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns">Cairns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Wood,_1st_Baron_Hatherley" title="William Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley">Hatherley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roundell_Palmer,_1st_Earl_of_Selborne" title="Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne">Selborne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Cairns,_1st_Earl_Cairns" title="Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns">Cairns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roundell_Palmer,_1st_Earl_of_Selborne" title="Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne">Selborne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hardinge_Giffard,_1st_Earl_of_Halsbury" title="Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury">Halsbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Farrer_Herschell,_1st_Baron_Herschell" title="Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell">Herschell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hardinge_Giffard,_1st_Earl_of_Halsbury" title="Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury">Halsbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Farrer_Herschell,_1st_Baron_Herschell" title="Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell">Herschell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hardinge_Giffard,_1st_Earl_of_Halsbury" title="Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury">Halsbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Reid,_1st_Earl_Loreburn" title="Robert Reid, 1st Earl Loreburn">Loreburn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Haldane,_1st_Viscount_Haldane" title="Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane">Haldane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanley_Buckmaster,_1st_Viscount_Buckmaster" title="Stanley Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster">Buckmaster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Finlay,_1st_Viscount_Finlay" title="Robert Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay">Finlay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/F._E._Smith,_1st_Earl_of_Birkenhead" title="F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead">Birkenhead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Cave,_1st_Viscount_Cave" title="George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave">Cave</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Haldane,_1st_Viscount_Haldane" title="Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane">Haldane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Cave,_1st_Viscount_Cave" title="George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave">Cave</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Douglas_Hogg,_1st_Viscount_Hailsham" title="Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham">D. Hailsham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Sankey,_1st_Viscount_Sankey" title="John Sankey, 1st Viscount Sankey">Sankey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Douglas_Hogg,_1st_Viscount_Hailsham" title="Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham">D. Hailsham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederic_Maugham,_1st_Viscount_Maugham" title="Frederic Maugham, 1st Viscount Maugham">Maugham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Inskip,_1st_Viscount_Caldecote" title="Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote">Caldecote</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Simon,_1st_Viscount_Simon" title="John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon">Simon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Jowitt,_1st_Earl_Jowitt" title="William Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt">Jowitt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gavin_Simonds,_1st_Viscount_Simonds" title="Gavin Simonds, 1st Viscount Simonds">Simonds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Maxwell_Fyfe,_1st_Earl_of_Kilmuir" title="David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir">Kilmuir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reginald_Manningham-Buller,_1st_Viscount_Dilhorne" title="Reginald Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne">Dilhorne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerald_Gardiner,_Baron_Gardiner" title="Gerald Gardiner, Baron Gardiner">Gardiner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quintin_Hogg,_Baron_Hailsham_of_St_Marylebone" title="Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone">Q. 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Hailsham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Havers,_Baron_Havers" title="Michael Havers, Baron Havers">Havers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Mackay,_Baron_Mackay_of_Clashfern" title="James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern">Mackay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Derry_Irvine,_Baron_Irvine_of_Lairg" title="Derry Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg">Irvine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Falconer,_Baron_Falconer_of_Thoroton" title="Charlie Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton">Falconer</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Constitutional_Affairs" title="Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs">Secretaries of State for Constitutional Affairs</a><br />2003–2007</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Falconer,_Baron_Falconer_of_Thoroton" title="Charlie Falconer, Baron Falconer of 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Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham">Grantham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_James_Fox" title="Charles James Fox">Fox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Nugent-Temple-Grenville,_1st_Marquess_of_Buckingham" title="George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham">Temple</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Osborne,_5th_Duke_of_Leeds" title="Francis Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds">Leeds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Grenville,_1st_Baron_Grenville" title="William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville">Grenville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Jenkinson,_2nd_Earl_of_Liverpool" title="Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool">Hawkesbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dudley_Ryder,_1st_Earl_of_Harrowby" title="Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby">Harrowby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Phipps,_1st_Earl_of_Mulgrave" title="Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave">Mulgrave</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_James_Fox" title="Charles James Fox">Fox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Grey,_2nd_Earl_Grey" title="Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey">Howick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Canning" title="George Canning">Canning</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Bathurst,_3rd_Earl_Bathurst" title="Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst">Bathurst</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Wellesley,_1st_Marquess_Wellesley" title="Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley">Wellesley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Stewart,_Viscount_Castlereagh" title="Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh">Castlereagh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Canning" title="George Canning">Canning</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Ward,_1st_Earl_of_Dudley" title="John Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley">Dudley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Hamilton-Gordon,_4th_Earl_of_Aberdeen" title="George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen">Aberdeen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_John_Temple,_3rd_Viscount_Palmerston" title="Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston">Palmerston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Wellesley,_1st_Duke_of_Wellington" title="Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington">Wellington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_John_Temple,_3rd_Viscount_Palmerston" title="Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston">Palmerston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Hamilton-Gordon,_4th_Earl_of_Aberdeen" title="George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen">Aberdeen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_John_Temple,_3rd_Viscount_Palmerston" title="Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston">Palmerston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Granville_Leveson-Gower,_2nd_Earl_Granville" title="Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville">Granville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Harris,_3rd_Earl_of_Malmesbury" title="James Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury">Malmesbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Russell,_1st_Earl_Russell" title="John Russell, 1st Earl Russell">Russell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Villiers,_4th_Earl_of_Clarendon" title="George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon">Clarendon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Harris,_3rd_Earl_of_Malmesbury" title="James Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury">Malmesbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Russell,_1st_Earl_Russell" title="John Russell, 1st Earl Russell">Russell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Villiers,_4th_Earl_of_Clarendon" title="George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon">Clarendon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Stanley,_15th_Earl_of_Derby" title="Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby">Stanley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Villiers,_4th_Earl_of_Clarendon" title="George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon">Clarendon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Granville_Leveson-Gower,_2nd_Earl_Granville" title="Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville">Granville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Stanley,_15th_Earl_of_Derby" title="Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby">Derby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Gascoyne-Cecil,_3rd_Marquess_of_Salisbury" title="Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury">Salisbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Granville_Leveson-Gower,_2nd_Earl_Granville" title="Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville">Granville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Gascoyne-Cecil,_3rd_Marquess_of_Salisbury" title="Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury">Salisbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archibald_Primrose,_5th_Earl_of_Rosebery" title="Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery">Rosebery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stafford_Northcote,_1st_Earl_of_Iddesleigh" title="Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh">Iddesleigh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Gascoyne-Cecil,_3rd_Marquess_of_Salisbury" title="Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury">Salisbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archibald_Primrose,_5th_Earl_of_Rosebery" title="Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery">Rosebery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Wodehouse,_1st_Earl_of_Kimberley" title="John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley">Kimberley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Gascoyne-Cecil,_3rd_Marquess_of_Salisbury" title="Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury">Salisbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Petty-Fitzmaurice,_5th_Marquess_of_Lansdowne" title="Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne">Lansdowne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Grey,_1st_Viscount_Grey_of_Fallodon" title="Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon">Grey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Balfour" title="Arthur Balfour">Balfour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Curzon,_1st_Marquess_Curzon_of_Kedleston" title="George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston">Curzon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramsay_MacDonald" title="Ramsay MacDonald">MacDonald</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Austen_Chamberlain" title="Austen Chamberlain">Chamberlain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Henderson" title="Arthur Henderson">Henderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rufus_Isaacs,_1st_Marquess_of_Reading" title="Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading">Reading</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Simon,_1st_Viscount_Simon" title="John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon">Simon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Hoare,_1st_Viscount_Templewood" title="Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood">Hoare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Eden" title="Anthony Eden">Eden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Wood,_1st_Earl_of_Halifax" title="Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax">Halifax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Eden" title="Anthony Eden">Eden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernest_Bevin" title="Ernest Bevin">Bevin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Morrison" title="Herbert Morrison">Morrison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Eden" title="Anthony Eden">Eden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Macmillan" title="Harold Macmillan">Macmillan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Selwyn_Lloyd" title="Selwyn Lloyd">Lloyd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alec_Douglas-Home" title="Alec Douglas-Home">Douglas-Home</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rab_Butler" title="Rab Butler">Butler</a></li> <li><a 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title="Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney">Townshend</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_North,_Lord_North" title="Frederick North, Lord North">North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Nugent-Temple-Grenville,_1st_Marquess_of_Buckingham" title="George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham">Temple</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Townshend,_1st_Viscount_Sydney" title="Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney">Sydney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Grenville,_1st_Baron_Grenville" title="William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville">Grenville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Dundas,_1st_Viscount_Melville" title="Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville">Dundas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Cavendish-Bentinck,_3rd_Duke_of_Portland" title="William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland">Portland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Pelham,_2nd_Earl_of_Chichester" title="Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester">Pelham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Philip_Yorke" title="Charles Philip Yorke">Yorke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Jenkinson,_2nd_Earl_of_Liverpool" title="Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool">Hawkesbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Spencer,_2nd_Earl_Spencer" title="George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer">Spencer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Jenkinson,_2nd_Earl_of_Liverpool" title="Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool">Liverpool</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Ryder_(politician,_born_1766)" title="Richard Ryder (politician, born 1766)">Ryder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Addington" title="Henry Addington">Sidmouth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Peel" title="Robert Peel">Peel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Sturges_Bourne" title="William Sturges Bourne">Sturges Bourne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Petty-Fitzmaurice,_3rd_Marquess_of_Lansdowne" title="Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne">Lansdowne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Peel" title="Robert Peel">Peel</a></li> <li><a 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Cross, 1st Viscount Cross">Cross</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Childers" title="Hugh Childers">Childers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Matthews,_1st_Viscount_Llandaff" title="Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff">Matthews</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H._H._Asquith" title="H. H. 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Fox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Pitt,_1st_Earl_of_Chatham" title="William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham">Pitt the Elder</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/1757_caretaker_ministry" title="1757 caretaker ministry">Vacant (caretaker ministry)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Pitt,_1st_Earl_of_Chatham" title="William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham">Pitt the Elder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Grenville" title="George Grenville">Grenville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Fox,_1st_Baron_Holland" title="Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland">H. Fox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Grenville" title="George Grenville">Grenville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Seymour_Conway" title="Henry Seymour Conway">Conway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_North,_Lord_North" title="Frederick North, Lord North">North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_James_Fox" title="Charles James Fox">C. Fox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Townshend,_1st_Viscount_Sydney" title="Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney">Townshend</a></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/Charles_James_Fox" title="Charles James Fox">C. Fox</a>/<a href="/wiki/Frederick_North,_Lord_North" title="Frederick North, Lord North">North</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Pitt_the_Younger" title="William Pitt the Younger">Pitt the Younger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Addington" title="Henry Addington">Addington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Pitt_the_Younger" title="William Pitt the Younger">Pitt the Younger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_James_Fox" title="Charles James Fox">C. Fox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Grey,_2nd_Earl_Grey" title="Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey">Howick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spencer_Perceval" title="Spencer Perceval">Perceval</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Stewart,_Viscount_Castlereagh" title="Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh">Castlereagh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Canning" title="George Canning">Canning</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Huskisson" title="William Huskisson">Huskisson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Peel" title="Robert Peel">Peel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Spencer,_3rd_Earl_Spencer" title="John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer">Althorp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Peel" title="Robert Peel">Peel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Russell,_1st_Earl_Russell" title="John Russell, 1st Earl Russell">Russell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Disraeli" title="Benjamin Disraeli">Disraeli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Russell,_1st_Earl_Russell" title="John Russell, 1st Earl Russell">Russell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_John_Temple,_3rd_Viscount_Palmerston" title="Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston">Palmerston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Disraeli" title="Benjamin Disraeli">Disraeli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_John_Temple,_3rd_Viscount_Palmerston" title="Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston">Palmerston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Ewart_Gladstone" title="William Ewart Gladstone">Gladstone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Disraeli" title="Benjamin Disraeli">Disraeli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Ewart_Gladstone" title="William Ewart Gladstone">Gladstone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stafford_Northcote,_1st_Earl_of_Iddesleigh" title="Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh">Northcote</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Ewart_Gladstone" title="William Ewart Gladstone">Gladstone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Hicks_Beach,_1st_Earl_St_Aldwyn" title="Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn">Hicks-Beach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Ewart_Gladstone" title="William Ewart Gladstone">Gladstone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lord_Randolph_Churchill" title="Lord Randolph Churchill">R. Churchill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Henry_Smith_(1825%E2%80%931891)" title="William Henry Smith (1825–1891)">Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Balfour" title="Arthur Balfour">Balfour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Ewart_Gladstone" title="William Ewart Gladstone">Gladstone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Harcourt_(politician)" title="William Harcourt (politician)">Harcourt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Balfour" title="Arthur Balfour">Balfour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Campbell-Bannerman" title="Henry Campbell-Bannerman">Campbell-Bannerman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H._H._Asquith" title="H. H. Asquith">Asquith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bonar_Law" title="Bonar Law">Law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Austen_Chamberlain" title="Austen Chamberlain">A. 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