Jack Straw
Jack Straw
John Whitaker Strawis an English politician who served as the Member of Parliamentfor Blackburn from 1979 to 2015. 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 Foreign Secretary from 2001 to 2006 under Blair. From 2007 to 2010 he served as Lord Chancellor and the Secretary of State for Justice throughout Brown's...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth3 August 1946
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to help the Iraqi government built a secure, democratic and stable nation.
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We don't rule out the possibility of military action and neither in our view should anybody else.
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We made it clear there will have to be significant changes in levels of overall spending of the EU and in the structure of funding compared to what was on the table in June if there is going to be a deal in December.
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We made some progress in respect of draft texts but obviously not sufficient progress,
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We must have a bargain which enables both sides to come out of it with their head held high.
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We are not proposing economic sanctions at the moment. Mugabe has already imposed the most terrible economic sanctions on his own people by collapsing the Zimbabwean economy.
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The people who will finally decide will not be the British Government or the Spanish Government, but the people of Gibraltar in a referendum, ... That was a solemn undertaking given in 1969 to the people of Gibraltar. We absolutely stand by it.
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the possibility of war is real and very disturbing.
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We don't have to make a decision today about this. I think the appropriate place for that to be announced is to the British parliament and there'll be a statement from me in exactly a week's time when parliament reassembles.
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We stand ready to hear what they have to say.
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We've agreed to set up a monitoring mission that is going to be launched on Thursday,
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We are at a difficult time, but I believe that by the process of argument we should be able to get to a point where we can get a second resolution,
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We are awaiting the police assessment of the video,
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We should take stock of Iran and discuss how we might best pursue the nuclear file over the coming weeks,