Straw and Blair: Tony Blair has gone into bat for his former foreign secretary Jack Straw after the Labour MP got caught up in a new "cash for access" scandal. The soon-to-retire Blackburn MP was shown on camera apparently offering to use his influence in exchange for money. Straw is heard saying he usually charges "5,000 pounds a day" for a speech in the recording from the Daily Telegraph and Channel 4's Dispatches.
Straw and Blair: Tony Blair has gone into bat for his former foreign secretary Jack Straw after the Labour MP got caught up in a new &quot;cash for access&quot; scandal. The soon-to-retire Blackburn MP was shown on camera apparently offering to use his influence in return for money. Straw is heard saying he usually charges &quot;£5,000 a day&quot; for a speech in the recording from the Daily Telegraph and Channel 4&#x27;s Dispatches. The Labour grandee also boasted to undercover reporters, who posed as executives…