WILL STRAW, son of Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and a campaigner against student fees, has landed a prominent civil service post at the Treasury.
He will start next week as a press officer charged with promoting Chancellor Gordon Brown's policies to the public. Last year, as student union president in Oxford, he led protests against Tony Blair's plan to charge students £10,000 a year in top-up tuition fees. Soon after graduation he joined the civil service as a fast-stream graduate trainee. He has spent the past 12 months in backroom Treasury roles.