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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those misgivings were surely put to rest by the lengthy statement we have just heard.
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We'll make decisions about exactly how much time in the light of the report at the United Nations.
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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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The demands they have made could not be met without great damage to jobs and industry, to essential services ... to pensioners and children,
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We agreed that it is not possible for ministers to order the judiciary around.
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We're going to listen carefully to what the president has to say and we'll take it from there,
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We're going to listen carefully ... and make an assessment from there,
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the possibility of war is real and very disturbing.
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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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We've agreed to set up a monitoring mission that is going to be launched on Thursday,
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We are awaiting the police assessment of the video,
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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 stand ready to hear what they have to say.
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There is no question of us going to war in Iran. Why? Because it's not going to resolve the issue,