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Jack Straw

August 2023

  • Nadine Dorries is facing growing criticism for not resigning.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Dorries claims she is ‘working daily’ on behalf of her constituents amid calls for her to resign – as it happened

    She made the comment in response to repeated claims she is neglecting her duty as an MP

May 2022

  • Judges of the European Court of Human Rights arrive at the beginning of an hearing on the Yukos versus Russia case in Strasbourg March 4, 2010. The European Court of Human Rights is due to hear a case brought against Russia by shareholders in collapsed oil firm Yukos. The former Yukos management accuses the Russian justice system of violating several articles of the European Convention on Human Rights in prosecuting the company for alleged tax offences and seeks $98 billion as compensation. Former manager Mikhail Khodorowski is serving a jail sentence in Russia since 2006. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler (FRANCE - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS)

    Downing Street must withdraw its threat to replace the Human Rights Act

    Letter: The government’s bill of rights proposal will weaken the public’s right to challenge abuse, says Geoffrey Bindman

December 2021

  • Tony Blair and Jack Straw

    Downing Street initially opposed Stephen Lawrence inquiry

    Tony Blair’s policy chief thought inquiry into police racism would raise unrealistic hopes for change

November 2021

  • Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe with her daughter Gabriella

    Labour and Tories join calls for UK to repay Iran debt

    Former foreign secretaries from both parties say settlement could help free Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

May 2021

  • Tony Blair; David Cameron; Donald Trump; Jonathan Aitken; Alastair Campbell; files being destroyed at Guardian HQ

    Guardian 200
    The rudest things they ever said about the Guardian

    This newspaper has upset public figures from Blair to Trump. Here we look at some of the resultant indignation

November 2020

  • The home secretary, Priti Patel

    Why do so many home secretaries fall out with their officials?

    Something about the Home Office seems to breed tension, as many of Priti Patel’s forerunners also found

September 2020

  • Geeta Sidhu-Robb

    Lib Dems drop mayoral contender over antisemitic comment about Jack Straw

    Geeta Sidhu-Robb said in 1997 she would ‘tell everyone Jack Straw is a Jew’ in response to Labour’s anti-Islam claim

July 2020

  • Nasar Meer

    Britain had a chance to talk about race 20 years ago. Let's get it right this time

    Nasar Meer
    A 2000 report foresaw the Black Lives Matter discussion, but didn’t survive the backlash, says the academic Nasar Meer

June 2020

  • Police personnel stand guard over a vigil for protesters who were injured during arrests in Hong Kong

    Seven former foreign secretaries urge UK to take lead on Hong Kong

    Cross-party initiative reflects concern response to China’s imposition of security laws cannot be left to Donald Trump

November 2019

  • immigration-themed montage of key labour and conservative figures of the last 15 years

    The long read
    How immigration became Britain’s most toxic political issue

    The long read: Over 20 years, the debate about freedom of movement has become skewed by a hostile narrative

July 2019

  • Police guard the British embassy in Tehran during a demonstration by hardline students

    Book of the day
    The English Job by Jack Straw review – portrait of Iran’s fixation with Britain

    The former foreign secretary on why Iran has just cause to fear foreign influence

January 2019

  • Tran Thi Ngai, a Vietnamese nurse who was raped at the age of 24

    Women raped by Korean soldiers during Vietnam war still awaiting apology

    Campaign group urges recognition for women affected by sexual violence of Korean troops and the children born as result

July 2018

  • Jack Straw, the former UK foreign secretary

    The Guardian view on outsourcing torture: a shaming story

  • Peter Beaumont

    I tried to expose the truth about MI6 and torture – but was lied to

    Peter Beaumont
  • A detainee’s arm hangs outside his cell at a security prison on the US naval station in Guantanamo Bay in 2005

    Criticism mounts over UK's post-9/11 role in torture and rendition

  • SIS building in Vauxhall, London.

    Could the UK become embroiled in human rights abuses in future?

  • The former foreign secretary, Jack Straw, in 2005

    What did Jack Straw know about the UK's role in torture and rendition?

  • Jack Straw, the former foreign secretary

    True scale of UK role in torture and rendition after 9/11 revealed

  • Jack Straw

    Jack Straw examined 'extraordinary' social security files of Jeremy Thorpe's lover

    Labour grandee read Norman Scott’s intimate secrets during investigation for Harold Wilson

May 2018

  • Steve Bell 23.5.18

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Steve Bell on Abdel Hakim Belhaj – cartoon

    Tony Blair has refused to personally apologise to the Libyan dissident who was tortured in a jail in Libya following a rendition operation
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