Will Straw Articles

The prime minister should have had a ‘Dover speech’ moment, reflects Will Straw to Richard Angell and Adam Harrison With the consequences of Britain’s shock Brexit vote still unfolding, any reluctance from the bruised leadership of the Britain Stronger In campaign to...

Fewer members take part in longer selection contests —Barely one in two Labour party members have voted in selection contests for the party’s candidates in its top 106 target seats, according to new research carried out by Progress. The findings suggest that we can at...

Running a primary for Labour’s London mayoral candidate would be a powerful signal of change, suggests Tessa Jowell The Socialist party in France has held one. The Australian Labor party in Sydney has held one. Will Labour in the UK be the next centre-left party to...

UK tanks are parking themselves firmly on the European Union’s lawn – thinktanks, that is. From IPPR’s new report Staying In: A reform plan for Britain and Europe, to the Centre for Policy Studies’ The UK and the EU: Cutting the knot, each anticipates a point in the...