Less than three months after announcing his resignation from the Opposition front bench, Jack Straw has announced it again.
This time, however, he has also announced his intention to publish his memoirs, which he says he hopes will be “readable” and not “tedious or self-serving”. I have no doubt that, being the sort of chap he is, he will succeed on both counts.
Jack has also made clear his distaste for the recently-published memoirs of Lord Mandelson (which I am presently reading with great interest):
“I don’t approve of people breaking confidences. It may sound very old-fashioned, but I don’t approve, for example, of the way Peter Mandelson has behaved and neither do quite a number of my colleagues.”
No, I shouldn’t have thought you would approve, Jack. Not your style at all.
