Rice calls Straw and Beckett after reshuffle

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice today called Britain's former foreign secretary, Jack Straw, and his successor, Margaret Beckett, after a shake-up in the government, the US State Department said.

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Rice’s call to Jack Straw “was from her perspective, I think, a bittersweet call,” noting the close professional and personal relationship between the two.