Labour grandee Jack Straw is denied a peerage over lobbying sting which saw him ‘boast about political connections’

‘Jack Straw is set to miss out on a peerage in the next set of honours because he is under investigation over cash-for-access claims.

The former Home and Foreign Secretary will not be given a seat in the Lords alongside other Labour grandees in David Cameron’s dissolution honours.

But David Blunkett and Alistair Darling will be handed peerages in the traditional post-election honours round, Labour sources revealed. Gordon Brown is thought to have declined the offer of a peerage.’

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