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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We can't get into a situation of bargaining with terrorists because this would put many more people's lives at risk, not only in Iraq but around the world,
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We put forth proposals. They are still on the table, ... They have yet properly to be considered by the other side.
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We hope British citizens will follow it, but we have no way of obliging British citizens to do so,
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We have spoken to the Italian administration at the highest level and they have agreed that these allegations will be fully investigated as part of the wider investigation into police malpractice by the Genoa Public Prosecutor,
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We can't be sure there will be free and fair elections,
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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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We'll recognize and respect whoever emerges as a leader through this system. Our concern, however, is that they (the Iraqis) have to make swift progress to secure a leader.
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To kidnap and kill anyone is inexcusable. But it is repugnant to commit such a crime against a woman who has spent most of her life working for the good of the people of Iraq,
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We believe the public will be better served if such warnings are used more sparingly.
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We've made a historic decision tonight on behalf of Croatia,
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We're working closely with the Saudi authorities to ensure the people who perpetrated these crimes are brought to justice.
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waiting for a police assessment of the video, which of course I have seen.