Summary
The New Statesman and the Economist are prominently displayed on his magazine rack and on the wall above his desk is a framed photograph from 2.005 °f Straw and Condoleezza Rice on the pitch in front of 80,000 spectators at an American football match - a reminder, if any were needed, of how close New Labour was to the George W Bush administration. What happened to it?" Does he think the government, wittingly or unwittingly, exaggerated the intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction? "I'm clear that the case we made was a case based on evidence that was available worldwide, which was about Saddam's non-compliance with Security Council resolutions and his continued failure to comply.
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The Great Survivor
As Labour prepares for the general election, Jack Straw talks candidly about his relationship with Gordon Brown, the Iraq war, Islamism, why he is a self-styled radical on electoral reform, and how he will transform our "chilling" libel laws
For a politician who, because of his wiliness and longevity, has been entangled in the defining crises of the New Labour years - the illegal invasion of Iraq, the machinations between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, the hardening of our all-pervasive surveillance society, the Afghanistan war - it seems appropriate to find Jack Straw holed up in the Orwellian Ministry of Justice as we approach the end of this government. This is the old Home Office renamed and remodelled, a charmless 19 70 s -er a concrete monolith, a statement of architectural gigantism in the hard modernist style. (I understand that the name Ministry of Love was considered and rejected by Straw.) The only surprise is that it is located at 102. Petty France in St James's, rather thanioi.Strawis inajaunty mood as he hurries into hi...See the full content of this document
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