Jack Straw

John Straw is a British politician who served as a member of parliament for the Blackburn constituency from 1979 to 2015. From 1997 to 2010, Straw served in the cabinet under two administrations of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He held two major traditional positions of state, namely as the Home Secretary of the UK from 1997 to 2001 and as the Foreign Secretary under the Blair administration from 2001 to 2006. From 2007 to 2010, he served as Chief Justice and Minister of Justice during Gordon Brown's presidency. He was once praised by the Guardian as the great beast of British politics;. From 1997 to 2010, Jack served in the cabinet of the Labour government consecutively. In February 2015, due to allegations of misappropriation of cash, he voluntarily withdrew from the Labour Party of Parliament but remained a member of the party. Jack denies any wrongdoing or violation of parliamentary rules, and actively cooperates with the parliamentary standards commissioner to review himself. He also voluntarily withdrew from the parliamentary Labour Party during the commissioner's investigation. In May 2010, after the Labour Party lost power, Jack temporarily served as the Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Minister of the Shadow Cabinet, and planned to leave parliament after the subsequent Labour Party Shadow Cabinet elections in 2010. Jack's first position in the shadow cabinet was as an education spokesperson since 1987. During his tenure, he called on the local education authorities to grant Islamic and Orthodox Jewish private schools the right to opt out of the national system and still receive public funds. After the 1997 election, he was appointed as the Minister of the Interior, proposing the 2000 Act on the Right to Investigate, increasing the powers of the anti-terrorism police, and proposing the abolition of the right to jury trials in certain circumstances. These policies have won praise from Margaret Thatcher, who once claimed that I believe in Jack Straw's judgment and that he is a very upright person. Jack was appointed as Foreign Secretary in 2001, succeeding Robin Cook. He played an important diplomatic role in the 9\/11 terrorist attacks in New York and the issues of Afghanistan and Iraq. Initially, he was accused of retreating behind the scenes of the Tony Blair government in the UK government's anti-terrorism war prosecution. In late September 2001, he became the first senior British government minister to visit Iran since the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Jack successfully helped Kashmir avoid an armed conflict crisis in 2002, and he is also a knowledgeable speaker on issues related to India and Pakistan. On October 13, 2005, Straw responded to a series of questions raised by a personal panel of the public during the BBC News Night Iraq special program, in response to the public's widespread concern about the withdrawal strategy of the British army, the Iraq rebellion, and the moral legitimacy of the unavoidable war. Straw repeatedly reiterated his position that in his view, the invasion decision was the right approach, but he said he was not sure that the situation was that way. As a foreign minister, he has also been closely involved in the decision-making process of many major European affairs, such as the 2005 EU budget agreement negotiations and all decisions related to the EU economy. In the same year, Jack also worked for T\u00fcrkiye