London: Britain's Foreign Secretary Jack Straw was rapped for ungentlemanly conduct 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.
Rice on Monday called for an end to the "political vacuum" in Iraq and for the Iraqis to form a new government.
Speaking at a news conference with British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, Rice said the next Iraqi prime minister must be a "strong leader" capable of unifying the people of this fractured country.
The chief US and British diplomats were on the second day of a surprise visit to Baghdad aimed at trying to end the political stalemate that has prevented the formation of a new government.
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