Jack Straw: I acted with probity and integrity

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class="map-body display-feature-phone-only"> <p>Former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has been suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party at his own request after being secretly filmed apparently offering his services to a private company for cash.</p><p>Fellow MP Sir Malcolm Rifkind was also secretly filmed.</p><p>Reporters for the Daily Telegraph and Channel 4's Dispatches posed as staff of a fake Chinese firm, and it is claimed Mr Straw was recorded describing how he had used his influence to change EU rules on behalf of a firm which paid him 拢60,000 a year.</p><p>Both Jack Straw and Sir Malcolm Rifkind have referred themselves to Parliament's standards watchdog, and deny any wrongdoing.</p><p>Jack Straw told the BBC he has "acted with complete probity and integrity throughout my parliamentary career".</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="topic-page-tags"> </div> <div class="share-wrapper"> <div class="share share--lightweight show"> <div id="share-tools"></div> <h2 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