On 17 June this year Ed Miliband was the keynote speaker at the Labour Friends of Israel annual lunch. He delivered a...
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Jack Straw Articles
Memo on … foreign affairs
Congratulations on your appointment as foreign secretary. You join Ernest Bevin, Herbert Morrison, James Callaghan,...
PMQs in the shadow of the reshuffle
There were some pretty discontented former ministers scattered round the House of Commons this lunchtime. The...
Present at the creation
Twenty years after Tony Blair’s election as party leader, Peter Mandelson tells Robert Philpot and Richard Angell why...
PMQs: Not setting the House on fire
I know the Conservative party has been trying to rebrand itself the workers' party but for the Tory prime minister...
We need to talk about China
A Chinese government that is more self-confident externally, more insecure internally, and in a more powerful...
A reflection on Labour’s ‘spectacular mistake’
It’s become almost de rigueur for members of the last Labour government to distance themselves from that government’s...
The Clause IV method
Having opened the door to reform of the link, there is no going back ‘Clause IV moment’ has become a synonym for a...
Trident and tested
The transformation in Labour’s attitude to defence is positive and profound Ladbrokes is offering 20/1 on Dan Jarvis...
Self-deprecating but ready to settle scores
Jack Straw, Last Man Standing: Memoirs of a Political Survivor, Macmillan, £20 In one moment in this book, Jack Straw...
Back to the 1970s?
Oh dear. If Jack Straw’s call for the abolition of the European parliament was intended to be provocative, it has...
Putting the politics into policing
The government has made clear that, despite its recent defeat in the House of Lords, it will introduce elected police...