LONDON, April 4: Britain’s Foreign Secretary Jack Straw was rapped for ungentlemanly conduct on Tuesday after reportedly commandeering US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s private quarters on her official jet. Rice was reported in a number of British newspapers to have graciously offered her British counterpart the use of her bed and cabin on the Boeing 757 plane and Straw ungallantly accepted, leaving her to sleep on the floor.

What one newspaper called ‘Bedgate’ is said to have happened as the political bedfellows flew to Kuwait at the weekend before transferring to a military flight bound for Baghdad.

Rice was in Straw’s northwest England constituency of Blackburn last week in a reciprocal visit after the British politician toured her native Alabama last year.—AFP