Labour legend Jack Straw is first to call on Keir Starmer to back away from ECHR
The former New Labour cabinet minister has criticised the foreign court's quality of judges and lack of democratic ...
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Labour’s prisons reform is a policy of necessity, not choice
Does the Labour government’s new approach on prisons ... home secretary from Howard (who actually did say it) through to Jack Straw, David Blunkett, Charles Clarke or John Reid in 2007.
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Jack Straw says UK government should axe defendant's right to elect jury trial
Labour grandee Jack Straw has called for thousands of defendants each year to be stripped of their right to elect a jury trial. Mr Straw, who served as Home Secretary under Tony Blair and Justice ...
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OPINION - Jack Straw is trying to smuggle a dangerous idea back into Britain's justice system
Jack Straw, the former Justice Secretary ... something he tried and failed to do 25 years ago when in power. Labour is conducting a review into sentencing in the criminal courts, with the ...
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Former justice secretary Jack Straw says right to choose jury trial lets defendants ‘game’ courts
The government should scrap the right of defendants to choose trial by jury for some mid-range offences, former justice secretary Jack ... to Mr Straw, who served as one of New Labour’s most ...
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How the attorney general became a legal time bomb for Keir Starmer
With Richard Hermer now under attack from cabinet colleagues over his ‘excessive’ adherence to international law – especially over immigration and the Chagos deal – the prime minister must be ruthless ...
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Blair government allowed unrestricted migration from eastern Europe
Tony Blair’s Labour government pressed ahead with unrestricted ... show deputy prime minister John Prescott and foreign secretary Jack Straw both urged delay, warning of a surge in immigration ...