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 complete the sting. Fortuitous timing too, this has helped push the paper’s recent difficulties down the memory hole. Yet Rifkind and […]
Posts Tagged ‘Jack Straw’
Jack Straw defends Lutfur Rahman and hits out at “gutter politics”
Apr 1st, 2014 by Keir McCormack.The editors say: Readers should note that this article was published on 1st April before 12pm!!! After a Dispatches documentary last night criticised his handling of public grants, Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman has received backing from an unlikely quarter. Blackburn MP and former cabinet minister Jack Straw has criticised borough bigwigs for engaging in […]
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The questions on Libya Tony Blair needs to answer
Sep 6th, 2011 by Mark Seddon.Former Prime Minister, Tony Blair and former Foreign Secretaries Jack Straw and David Miliband, now face some extremely tough questions as to how much they knew about the extraordinary rendition of prisoners to Libya where they were tortured. The discovery of some extraordinary archives in the ruins of the Ministry of Information in Tripoli by […]
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Extraordinary Rendition: The truth about David Miliband please!
Sep 2nd, 2010 by Mark Seddon.As ballot papers for Labour’s leadership land on doorsteps this week, those electing the next Leader of the Opposition, namely party members, MPs and affiliated trades unionists have a duty not only to consider their party’s best interests, but the country’s best interests too.
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Jack Straw should go now
Jul 15th, 2010 by Jon Lansman.Making the transition from Government to opposition requires that Labour recognises as quickly as possible where it went wrong, on what issues it was most decisively rejected, and seeks to distance itself from its past. Civil liberties is a prime example, and one on which the Tory performance largely bears out its opposition stance: Labour […]
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Gerrymandering ahead
Jun 7th, 2010 by Jon Lansman.Attention on the Parliamentary Reform bill has primarily focussed on AV and the 55% majority proposed to dissolve parliament prior to the end of a fixed term. Attention should turn to the Tory aim of equalising the size of constituencies. In fact, that is always an objective of the Boundary Commission, but as Jack Straw […]
