When:
Thursday, Apr 06, 2017 4:30p -
6:00p

Where:
MIT E51-345 Tang Center
2 Amherst Street
Cambridge, MA 02142

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
Lectures & Conferences

Event website:
https://cis.mit.edu/events/starr-forum-brexit-europe-and-trump

Speaker: Jack Straw, Former British Foreign Secretary


John Whitaker "Jack" Straw is an English politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Blackburn from 1979 to 2015. Straw served in the Cabinet from 1997 to 2010 under the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He held two of the traditional Great Offices of State, as Home Secretary from 1997 to 2001 and Foreign Secretary from 2001 to 2006 under Blair. From 2007 to 2010 he served as Lord Chancellor and the Secretary of State for Justice throughout Brown's Premiership. Straw is one of only three individuals to have served in Cabinet continuously under the Labour government from 1997 to 2010.


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