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Gordon Brown’s government was on a collision course with the UK Information Commissioner last night after ministers decided to block the release of key Cabinet discussions in 1997 covering decisions taken in the run-up to devolution. Full Article at Times Online
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Chancellor Alistair Darling has not revealed all the cuts needed to cut the the UK's deficit, experts have warned. Full Article at BBC News
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Sir John Sawers, a former foreign policy adviser to Tony Blair who is now the head of MI6, was drafted in as Britain’s Special Representative to Iraq with less than a week to prepare. Full Article at The Telegraph
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Amid the news coming from the expenses releases today and the continued analysis of the pre-Budget report, there’s an important story that’s hardly had any coverage. Full Article at Total Politics
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Justice secretary Jack Straw arriving for a cabinet meeting at Downing Street. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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2:28pm UK, Thursday December 10, 2009 Tom Rayner, home affairs producer The Justice Secretary Jack Straw has overruled a decision by the Information Commissioner, in order to block the release of Government documents. Full Article at Sky News
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The justice secretary has blocked the release of minutes of a 1997 cabinet committee meeting on devolution. Full Article at BBC News
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Justice Secretary Jack Straw today blocked the publication of minutes of a 1997 Cabinet committee meeting on devolution. Full Article at The Independent
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England's libel law is being used to bully people into silence, quash dissent and destroy criticism, comic Dara O'Briain said today. Full Article at The Independent
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Libel laws in England and Wales are being used to bully people into silence and quash dissent, campaigners including comic Dara O'Briain claim. Full Article at BBC News
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Jack Straw has mooted the possibility of a separate justice system for Wales, but not without a referendum showing that this is what the Welsh want. Full Article at Law Society Gazette
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Report: Bob Geldof has accused the secretive family courts of 'state-sanctioned kidnap' Bob Geldof today accused the secretive family courts of 'state-sanctioned kidnap'. Full Article at Daily Mail - UK
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Jack Straw, the then-foreign secretary, opens the debate on war with Iraq in February 2003, as Tony Blair and John Prescott, then the prime minister and deputy prime minister respectively, look on. Full Article at Beltway Blips
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A campaign backed by a Government minister which urges parents not to buy girls pink Christmas gifts was branded "pointless" yesterday. Full Article at Mirror.co.uk
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Jack Straw, the then-foreign secretary, opens the debate on war with Iraq in February 2003, as Tony Blair and John Prescott, then the prime minister and deputy prime minister respectively, look on. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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In the past few days the leading libel judge, Mr Justice Eady, has robustly defended the current state of libel law while the minister of justice, Jack Straw, has suggested some changes are imminent. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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The world's rich and powerful have long chosen London to defend their interests in court, but pressure is mounting for an overhaul in the English laws that saw it named "libel capital of the world". Full Article at Sydney Morning Herald
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Former Birmingham poet laureate Roshan Doug has quit the bench because he says it is unrepresentative, he tells Rebekah Oruye. Full Article at Birmingham Post
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Justice secretary Jack Straw has called for women offenders to be punished in the community rather than being sent to jail. Full Article at This is Bristol
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Last month he said Mrs Clinton was 'delightful to deal with one on one' and added: 'She's someone who laughs and can tease, and she's got perspective as well.' The pair are not the first in their roles to exchange flirtatious remarks. Full Article at Daily Mail - UK
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John Whitaker Straw (born 3 August 1946), most commonly known as Jack Straw, is a senior British Labour Party politician. On 28 June 2007 he was appointed to the offices of Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and Secretary of State for Justice. Full Article
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LONDON - NOVEMBER 18: Leader of the House of Commons Harriet Harman attend the State Opening of Parliament on November 18, 2009 in London, England. Queen Elizabeth II unveiled the Government's legislative programme in a speech delivered from the Throne in The House of Lords.
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LONDON - NOVEMBER 18: Leader of the House of Commons Harriet Harman attend the State Opening of Parliament on November 18, 2009 in London, England. Queen Elizabeth II unveiled the Government's legislative programme in a speech delivered from the Throne in The House of Lords.
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LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 01: The Right Honourable Jack Straw MP, Lord Chancellor and secetary of State for Justice, (R) leaves Westminster Abbey after the annual service of thanksgiving on October 1, 2009 in London, England.
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BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 30: Sun political editor George Pascoe-Watson (R) talks with Justice Secretary Jack Straw outside the Labour Party Conference on September 30, 2009 in Brighton, England.
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BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 29: Secretary of State for Justice Jack Straw (R) and Home Secretary Alan Johnson share a joke during the Labour Party Conference on September 29, 2009 in Brighton, England.
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LONDON - NOVEMBER 18: Leader of the House of Commons Harriet Harman attend the State Opening of Parliament on November 18, 2009 in London, England. Queen Elizabeth II unveiled the Government's legislative programme in a speech delivered from the Throne in The House of Lords.
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I don't want to give a running commentary on the evidence, but, when the time comes, I will give my evidence robustly. I will advocate and defend the position that we took. Iraq is now an emerging democracy. Would it have been better if Saddam had stayed? He could have stayed there if he'd complied. But...
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Absolutely, and Mr Blair and the Foreign Secretary (Jack Straw) in their many conversations always made a point I think of stressing to the US that they must take planning for post-conflict Iraq just as seriously as planning for any military operation.
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I don't want to give a running commentary on the evidence, but, when the time comes, I will give my evidence robustly. I will advocate and defend the position that we took. Iraq is now an emerging democracy. Would it have been better if Saddam had stayed? He could have stayed there if he'd complied. But...
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I certainly never felt either with Robin Cook or with Jack Straw that they didn't understand the picture that was being given to them on intelligence
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What about Auschwitz ... You don't need a subsequent radio intercept to find out that people were gassed at Auschwitz.
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I have written to Jack Straw in the meantime, and to the Foreign Office and Hungarian ambassador in London expressing my concerns
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What about Auschwitz ... You don't need a subsequent radio intercept to find out that people were gassed at Auschwitz.
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Jack Straw tried too hard. He looked anxious, sounded forced, and seemed to have practised many of his lines, losing his audience as he banged on about the past.
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This is yet another piece of policy hastily cobbled together by the Tories
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My dad was in the RAF during the Second World War - Jack Straw's was in prison.
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My dad was in the Royal Air Force during World War II and Jack Straw’s was in prison as a conscientious objector.
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Joining us tonight from Television Centre, we have Conservative peer Baroness Warsi, Labour's justice secretary, Jack Straw, and making his first appearance on Question Time, Britain's leading neo-Nazi, Nick Griffin.
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That is why, using parliamentary privilege, I tabled these questions to Jack Straw at the Ministry of Justice as a matter of urgency.
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The Justice Secretary (Jack Straw) has talked to the parties concerned and is looking into this issue
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He told Jack Straw it was nonsense ... And Straw said, ‘Look, don’t worry about it. I don’t particularly take any notice about these things’.
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I have written to Jack Straw and the prison service asking them to investigate. This family has suffered a terrible tragedy and to be taunted in this way is unacceptable.
– Graham Stringer SOURCE: Manchester Evening News
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