Jack Straw
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"John Whitaker" ""Jack"" "Straw" is a United Kingdom/British Labour Party (UK)/Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Blackburn (UK Parliament constituency)/Blackburn since United Kingdom general election, 1979/1979. Straw served in the Cabinet from 1997 to 2010 under the 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 Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs/Foreign Secretary from 2001 to 2006 under Blair. From 2007 to 2010 he served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain/Lord Chancellor and the Secretary of State for Justice throughout Brown ministry/Brown's Premiership. Straw is one of only three individuals to have served in Cabinet continuously under the Labour government from 1997 to 2010.

After the Labour Party lost power in UK General Election, 2010/May 2010, Straw briefly served as Deputy Prime Minister/Shadow Deputy Prime Minister and Shadow Justice Secretary, with the intention to stand down from the frontbench after the subsequent Shadow Cabinet/2010 Labour Shadow Cabinet election.

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Saddam's weapons pose a grave threat to international peace and security, ... We must not shrink from our commitment.

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Each of these tests is demanding but eminently deliverable. We are working as hard as we possibly can to secure a second resolution.

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I'm very pleased to announce that agreement has now been reached that negotiations on Turkey's accession into the European Union can and will begin in the very near future.

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The Iranians are tough to negotiate with.

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While the Taliban connives with foreign terrorists, the Afghan people suffer from poverty, drought and hunger.

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As soon as I leave this briefing ... I am going to find the people I think are responsible and encourage them to deal with it and to offer them some career advice.

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Agreement has now been reached that negotiations on Turkey's accession to the European Union can and will begin in the very near future.

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[LONDON, England (CNN) -- Saying he is] very, very sorry ... handled sympathetically and quickly.

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What that dossier shows is that the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's regime is not some historic leftover, but is real serious and represents a mounting challenge to the international community.

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