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2 daughters 1 son 3 august 1946 8 27 june 2007 5 may 2006 8 june 2001 2 october may 1997 20 october 1994 18 july 1992 30 march 2010 2015 25 september 2010 11 may 2010 brentwood school university of leeds inns of court harriet -rrb- tony blair john smith margaret beckett -lrb- acting -rrb- harman neil kinnock -lrb- acting -rrb- harriet harman -lrb- acting 11 5 may 2006 8 june 2001 2 may 1997 20 may october 1994 24 july 1992 13 july 1987 3 may 2010 1979 11 may 2010 28 june 2007 anthea -lrb- 1978 -- present -rrb- weston -lrb- 1968 -- 1977 -rrb- alice perkins jack straw 2.jpg jack straw nigel griffiths paddy tipping dominic lord falconer of thoroton geoff hoon robin cook michael howard grieve tony blair eric heffer -lrb- housing and construction -rrb- giles william radice barbara castle hague -lrb- senior member -rrb- the buckhurst hill , united kingdom labour -lrb- suspended -rrb- shadow shadow deputy prime minister of the united kingdom lord chancellor lord secretary of state for justice leader of the house of chancellor commons lord privy seal secretary of state for foreign and shadow commonwealth affairs home secretary shadow home secretary shadow minister for secretary local government and housing shadow secretary of state for education of and science member of parliament for blackburn state for justice sadiq beckett david blunkett michael howard position abolished ann taylor -lrb- khan education -rrb- kate hollern harriet harman kenneth clarke harriet harman margaret anglicanism gordon brown tony blair tony blair tony blair jack straw
 john whitaker straw
jack straw

john whitaker straw -lrb- born 3 august 1946 -rrb- is a british politician who served as the member of parliament -lrb- mp -rrb- 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 .
he voluntarily withdrew from the parliamentary labour party -lrb- but remained a member of the party itself -rrb- in february 2015 due to `` cash for access '' allegations .
straw denied any wrongdoing or any breach of the parliamentary rules and voluntarily referred himself to the commissioner on parliamentary standards and withdrew from the parliamentary labour party pending the commissioner 's inquiry .
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 .
