Will Straw

Will Straw
Personal details
Born	1980 (age 36–37) Lambeth, London, England
Political party	Labour
Alma mater	New College, Oxford Columbia University

William David John Straw CBE (born 1980) is a British policy researcher and Labour Party politician. He worked as a civil servant, founded the political blog Left Foot Forward and is currently an associate director of the think-tank Institute for Public Policy Research, specialising in climate change, energy and transport.

In the lead up to 2016's referendum on European Union membership, he was the executive director of Britain Stronger In Europe, the all party umbrella organisation that fought for the United Kingdom to remain a member of the European Union.

Straw was born in Lambeth in 1980. His parents are Alice Perkins and Jack Straw. He attended the comprehensive Pimlico School. In January 1998, aged 17, he was caught trying to sell £10 of cannabis, after a friend was paid £2,000 by the Daily Mirror to introduce him to an undercover reporter posing as an acquaintance. The story caused some embarrassment for his father, who was Home Secretary at the time.

He went to Oxford University where he read Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) and was elected President of the Junior Common Room of New College and the Oxford University Student Union in 2001. In 2001, he and several other OUSU campaigners protested against tuition fees on the steps of Oxford's Bodleian Library by throwing off most of their clothes to reveal gold-painted torsos. After Oxford, he read for a master's degree in public administration as a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University.

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