Former British Foreign Minister and Labour MP Jack Straw has been caught in secret filming apparently offering his influence to a fictitious Chinese company in return for cash. <br /><br /> The “sting” also hit another former Foreign Minister MP Malcolm Rifkind and has reignited a row over, “cash for access”. He has been suspended by the Conservative Party in Parliament. <br /><br /> The political scandal comes just months before an election. Both men have denied any wrong doing and have referred themselves to the British Parliament’s standards watchdog.<br /><br /> “I am really most angry at the suggestion there is something improper about a member of parliament being willing to consider serving on an advisory board of a company that says it is proposing major investment in the United Kingdom,” Sir Malcolm Rifkind told reporters.<br /><br /> The programme claims Jack Straw described how he operated “under the radar” and had used his influence to change EU rules on behalf of a firm which pays him around 70,000 euros a year.
