Jack Straw defending Westminster old guard  

Jack Straw is a one of Westminster's great political survivors.  Part of this, I’m certain is down to the fact that he’s actually rather a polite and decent man.   He's been in the Cabinet for over a decade, and held many big ministerial jobs.  A feather for each wind that blows, he was Blairite when it paid to be Blairite.  Now he works for Gordon Brown. Yet he seems to have worked himself up in to an uncharactistic flap this evening over David Cameron's plans to reduce the number of MPs by 10 percent.  In a speech to the Hansard society, Straw apparently says cutting the number of politicians would be "dangerous, destructive and anti-democratic".  Tell that to the voters, Jack. There are too many MPs sitting in a supine, spineless House of Commons. ...