Home Secretary Jack Straw today renewed his calls to overhaul the United Nations convention on refugees in the latest of a multi-pronged Government attack on the asylum issue. Mr Straw is urging ...

The Rt Hon Jack Straw is one of three senior Ministers to remain in Cabinet throughout the 1997 to 2010 Labour Government. He served as Foreign Secretary (2001 to 2006), Home Secretary (1997 to 2001), ...

Home Secretary Jack Straw said it was being ended because "it is arbitrary, unfair and ineffective and has penalised genuine cases, divided families and unnecessarily increased the administrative ...