The British government asked for the Lockerbie bomber to be included in a prisoner transfer agreement with Libya because it was in the ''overwhelming interests of the United Kingdom'' as a major oil deal was being negotiated, a British newspaper reported Sunday. The Sunday Times, citing leaked correspondence between Justice Secretary Jack Straw and...

THE spectacle of the queen in a long evening dress and diamond-laden crown holding forth in a plummy monotone about ''unclaimed money in dormant bank accounts'' and other supposedly urgent legislative topics is unsettling enough. But anyone watching the queen unveil the government's legislative agenda at the State Opening of Parliament here in...

RARELY has Britain's struggle to define its relationship with a disaffected and diverse Muslim minority seemed so fraught as it was last week, with the debate fixated on where a woman can wear a flimsy, kerchief-size item of Islamic dress called the niqab, the full-face veil, . The discussion, intensified by Prime Minister Tony Blair's calling the...
Jack Straw (født 3. august 1946, Buckhurst Hill, Essex England) har været valgt til Parlamentet for Labourpartiet siden 1979 og har haft skiftende ministerposter Storbritanniens Labour-regeringer. 1997-2001 var han indenrigsminister, 2001-2006 udenrigsminister, formand for Underhuset 2006-2007, og 28. juni 2007 udnævnte Gordon Brown Jack Straw til justitsminister.