The former New Labour cabinet minister has criticised the foreign court's quality of judges and lack of democratic ...

Jack Straw, a former Labour home secretary, has urged Sir Keir Starmer to back away from the European Court of Human Rights.

To me, the answer to this issue is simple, writes former foreign secretary Jack Straw. Fresh thinking is required to excise ...

The British government does not run this country. It has given away much of its decision-making power, weakening its ability to direct the country, despite the state’s increasing size. That is the ...

Didn’t they do well? Malcolm Rifkind and Jack Straw have done a blinder dragging Parliament’s reputation through the muck yet again. Fair play to The Telegraph too, who teamed up with C4 Dispatches to ...

Despite Jack Straw’s protestations that the government is ‘not about lecturing people about how they should live their lives’, the use of the state to influence and shape people’s behavior runs like a ...

Harold Wilson, the begetter of so many of the Labour Party’s problems today, was at least right about one thing. A week is a long time in politics – and half a week at Bishops Stortford even longer.

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.