Jack Straw says there is so little government legislation for MPs to consider at the moment that ministers are having to "manufacture activity".

Digby Jacks was instrumental in turning the National Union of Students into an effective lobbying and campaigning body, which stopped the then Education Minister Margaret Thatcher from introducing policies which would have restricted the autonomy and finances of the various students' unions. Elected NUS president in 1971, Jacks, along with his predecessor Jack Straw – both members of th...

Jack Straw, sometime Justice Secretary, is on a campaign against referral fees in accident insurance claims. Claims management companies (CMCs) busily ferret out details of accidents that people have suffered, and sell on the details to solicitors who will encourage the victims to sue, on a no-win-no-fee basis. Mr Straw and many like him claim this pushes up legal costs that will eventually have t...

Labour backbencher and former cabinet minister Jack Straw has called on the coalition to dismantle the "lucrative and self-serving merry-go-round" of personal injury cases.

"In 2005, a year after Belhadj’s rendition, Jack Straw declared there was ‘no truth’ in claims of British involvement, while Tony Blair maintained there was ‘absolutely no evidence’." - Daily Mail Blair, with his Prince of Orange tan and ever camera-ready face, is slippery; Straw, with his worn, domesticated look is slippery as defined by Ross Noble: a bit like a slip...

Jack Straw, the former justice secretary, rejected more than £10,000 of taxpayer-funded furniture for his departmental office because it was too close to "Conservative" blue, documents seen by The Daily Telegraph suggest.

Jack Straw’s column in the Times today (£) contains the following revelation: ‘Our records indicate that you may be entitled to £3,450 for the accident you had. To claim free reply CLAIM to this message,” went the text that my pal Phil Riley received last week. This “accident” was, in truth, a minor prang. Phil had stopped in traffic. The chap behind drove i...

The former Justice Secretary Jack Straw is calling for reform of the motor insurance industry, to prevent insurers referring their clients to personal injury lawyers without permission.

Jack Straw predicts the collapse of the eurozone and urges the UK to consider the "alternatives" as the Greek debt crisis worsens.

Former home secretary Jack Straw and former Labour Cabinet colleague Lord Mandelson have contacted Scotland Yard after fresh allegations that private investigators committed b