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    John Whitaker Straw (born 3 August 1946) is a British politician who served in the Cabinet from 1997 to 2010 under the Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He held two of the traditional Great Offices of State, as Home Secretary from 1997 to 2001, and Foreign Secretary from 2001 to 2006 under Blair.

  2. Jack Straw is a British Labour Party politician who held numerous government posts, including home secretary (1997–2001), foreign minister (2001–06), leader of the House of Commons (2006–07), and lord chancellor and secretary of state for justice (2007–10).

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  3. Apr 4, 2024 · Sky's Trevor Phillips talks to former foreign secretary Jack Straw on the warning given to Rishi Sunak, that the UK is breaching international law by continu...

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  4. Straw has also said that “the allegation and belief at the time (2002)” was, as the British High Commission report put it, “Narendra Modi met senior police officers on the 27th of February ...

  5. Jack Straw served as Foreign Secretary, Home Secretary, and Leader of the Commons under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He is a Member of the Independent Commission on Freedom of Information since 2015.

  6. Jan 21, 2023 · Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, in an interview with veteran journalist Karan Thapar of The Wire on BBC documentary about the 2002 Gujarat riots, said that the British government ...

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  8. Jan 22, 2023 · Former British foreign secretary Jack Straw on Saturday defended the British high commission’s investigation of the 2002 Gujarat carnage on his watch two decades ago, saying his government was responding to representations made by British citizens of Gujarati origin.