Straw's son lands top Treasury job

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.