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John Whitaker Straw (born 3 August 1946) is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Blackburn from 1979 to 2015. Straw served in the Cabinet from 1997 to 2010 under the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He held two of the traditional Great Offices of State, as Home Secretary from 1997 to 2001 and Foreign Secretary from 2001 to 2006 under Blair. From 2007 to 2010 he served as Lord Chancellor and the Secretary of State for Justice throughout Brown's Premiership. Straw is one of only three individuals to have served in Cabinet continuously under the Labour government from 1997 to 2010. After the Labour Party lost power in May 2010, Straw briefly served as Shadow Deputy Prime Minister and Shadow Justice Secretary, with the intention to stand down from the frontbench after the subsequent 2010 Labour Shadow Cabinet election. In February 2015 Channel 4 Dispatches and The Daily Telegraph accused Straw of impropriety following a meeting they set up with a fictitious Chinese company. Straw strongly denied the allegations and referred himself to Parliament’s Commissioner for Standards. In September 2015 the Commissioner for Standards dismissed all allegations that he had brought the House of Commons into disrepute and criticised Channel 4 and the Daily Telegraph’s conduct. ==Early life== Jack Straw was born in Buckhurst Hill, Essex, the son of Joan Sylvia (née Gilbey)〔Who's Who 2008, A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007〕〔General Register Office Birth Index 1946 Q3 Epping 5a 178〕 and Walter Arthur Whitaker Straw,〔 an insurance salesman.〔''(Last Man Standing: Memoirs of a Political Survivor )'', Jack Straw, 2012〕 Straw was brought up in Loughton, Essex, by his mother, on a council estate after his father left the family. Known to his family as "John", he started calling himself "Jack" while in school, in reference to Jack Straw, one of the leaders of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381.〔 He is of 1/8 Jewish descent – his maternal grandmother's father having come from an Eastern European Jewish family (Straw himself is a Christian).〔〔(How Jewish is Jack Straw? )''The Jewish Chronicle'', July 31, 2008〕 Jack Straw was educated at Brentwood School and the University of Leeds. He graduated with a 2:2 degree in Law.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ten things you didn't know about Jack Straw )〕 He was alleged by the Foreign Office to have disrupted a student trip to Chile to build a youth centre. They branded him a "troublemaker acting with malice aforethought." Straw was then elected president of the Leeds University Union. At the 1967 National Union of Students (NUS) Conference, he unsuccessfully ran for office in the NUS. In April 1968, he stood unsuccessfully for election as NUS President, to be defeated by Trevor Fisk.〔Sir Patrick Wall, ''Student Power'' (London: Conservative Monday Club, 1969), p. 8〕 However, he was elected as NUS President in 1969, holding this post until 1971.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.totalpolitics.com/print/176162/ten-things-you-didnand39t-know-about-jack-straw.thtml )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.itv.com/news/update/2013-10-26/key-points-jack-straws-career-in-politics/ )〕 In 1971, he was elected as a Labour councillor in the London Borough of Islington, a position he held until 1978. In 2007 the Leeds University Union Council reinstated Jack Straw's life membership of the Union, given to all past Presidents. A previous motion in 2000 had removed his life membership and led to the removal of his name from the Presidents’ Board, owing to disagreement with his involvement in anti-terror legislation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Leeds University Union Union Council – November Referendum Meeting )〕 Straw subsequently qualified as a barrister at Inns of Court School of Law, practising criminal law for two years from 1972 to 1974. He is a member of The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple and remains active in lecturing to fellow members and students. Between 1971 to 1974, Jack Straw was a member of the Inner London Education Authority, and Deputy Leader from 1973 to 1974. He served as a political adviser to Barbara Castle at the Department of Social Security from 1974 to 1976, and as an adviser to Peter Shore at the Department for the Environment from 1976 to 1977. From 1977 to 1979, Straw worked as a researcher for the Granada TV series, ''World in Action''. Straw stood unsuccessfully as the Labour parliamentary candidate for the safe Conservative Tonbridge and Malling constituency in the February 1974 election. He was later selected to stand for Labour in its safe Blackburn seat at the 1979 General Election. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jack Straw」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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