Former cabinet minister’s support for Iraq war and comments in cash for access’ sting among reasons for denial,say Labour sources Jack Straw, who was a cabinet minister throughout the 13 years of the last Labour government, and is to be denied a knighthood and a peerage under the current party leader,Jeremy Corbyn.
Having served as domestic secretary, foreign secretary and then lord chancellor, and Straw is understood to absorb been lined up for a seat in the Lords during the final days of Ed Miliband’s period as party leader. But he suspended himself from party membership last February after being secretly filmed by undercover reporters while apparently offering his services to a private company for cash. This prevented an offer of a peerage at the time.
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Source: theguardian.com