Will Straw
Will Straw founded Left Foot Forward in 2009 and was its first Editor. Follow him on Twitter.
Trident opposed by two-in-three
An exclusive poll carried out by YouGov for Left Foot Forward reveals that 63 per cent oppose the Government's plans to renew the Trident nuclear deterrent while a diminishing number of people believe that nuclear weapons make them safer.
Politics Summary: Monday, September 21st
The Liberal Democrat conference starts in Bournemouth with two new announcements. The party is to propose an annual levy of […]
Get Gordon to Go
Ed Miliband has launched a campaign to get his boss, Gordon Brown, to join him at the Copenhagen talks. Meanwhile, the international online civic organisation, Avaaz, have sent an email to their 300,000 British members urging them to, "flood a UK online poll [and] ... send Gordon to Copenhagen."
Mail untruths Pt 3: work-life balance row
An article in today's Daily Mail willfully misconstrues the findings of a Joseph Rowntree Foundation report. While the article says the research goes against Government work-life balance policy, the report itself says the opposite.
Politics Summary: Friday, September 18th
Barack Obama’s decision to scrap a missile defence shield in central Europe receives a mixed reaction. The Guardian calls it, […]
Independent half right on costs of fiscal black hole
The Independent today headline, "£2,840 - cost to every family of filling public finance black hole." The problem is that the number is only half right.