FORMER foreign secretaries Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Jack Straw were cleared of any wrongdoing yesterday over the so-called cash for access scandal, a parliamentary standards watchdog declared yesterday.

Undercover reporters secretly filmed Mr Rifkind claiming he could arrange “useful access” to every British ambassador in the world.

Mr Straw allegedly told the journalists posing as communication agency reps hoping to bring British MPs on to their board that he had operated “under the radar,” using his influence to change European Union rules on behalf of a commodity firm which paid him £60,000 a year.