Will Straw worked as a civil servant, founded the political blog Left Foot Forward, was an associate director of the think-tank Institute for Public Policy Research, specialising in climate change, energy and transport, and was chief operating officer of Clearly, a charity in the eye care sector.
11 Facts About Will Straw
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Will Straw went to Oxford University where he studied Politics, philosophy and economics and was elected President of the Junior Common Room of New College and the Oxford University Student Union in 2001.
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The blog grew to have about forty writers; Will Straw left it in 2010 to join the Institute for Public Policy Research.
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In 2004, Will Straw became governor of Henry Fawcett Primary School in Kennington, which he had attended as a child.
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Will Straw moved to the US in 2007 but his name was not taken off the official register.
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In 2009, Will Straw was one of twelve governors removed by Lambeth Council amid concerns over financial management and poor teaching at the school.
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Will Straw was the parliamentary candidate for the Labour Party, for the constituency of Rossendale and Darwen in the 2015 general election, the neighbouring constituency to his father's Blackburn, but lost to the Conservative incumbent Jake Berry.
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Will Straw was the executive director of Britain Stronger in Europe, the group that campaigned for the United Kingdom to remain in the European Union, ahead of the 2016 referendum.
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Will Straw was awarded a CBE in outgoing Prime Minister David Cameron's controversial resignation honours in 2016.
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Will Straw stated that he had accepted the award in order to take his wife to Buckingham Palace and "as something to remember the hard work that I and others put into the campaign".
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Will Straw is married to Claire Straw, an American, with whom he has two sons.