Before the negotiations, Britain's foreign secretary, Jack Straw, gavea warning that a bad budget deal would be worse than no deal at all.
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And police officers gave Home Secretary Jack Strawa slow handclap during his speech to the Police Federation conference where he claimed Labour had maintained standards.
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It followed a visit by Straw to Rice's home state of Alabama in October, where she gave him a high-profile taste of life in the Deep South.