Will Straw Articles

New rules, not protectionism, is the answer to the challenge of globalisation, argues Will Straw IN his 2005 party conference speech Tony Blair said: ‘In the era of rapid globalisation, there is no mystery about what works: an open, liberal economy, prepared...

The ongoing elections in the US and France have exposed an electorally popular strand of protectionism in both countries. In the US, the Republican hopeful Mitt Romney has made hawkish noises about China's currency while Arnaud Montebourg came an unexpected third in...

The debate about how Labour should select candidates to fight elections has been raging for years and it’s not new to hear conference delegates bemoaning selection procedures as anarchic, cumbersome, or biased. But since Progress and others began making the case for...

Today I attended the fringe event jointly organised by Progress and the Institute for Government on whether we should have primaries to select Labour parliamentary candidates.   In the pro camp on the panel was Tottenham MP David Lammy, who said primaries were a good...