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Giles Radice

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The Lord Radice

Official portrait, 2018
Chairman of the Treasury Select Committee
In office
17 July 1997 – 7 June 2001
Prime MinisterTony Blair
Succeeded byJohn McFall
Shadow Secretary of State for
Education and Science
In office
2 October 1983 – 13 July 1987
LeaderNeil Kinnock
Preceded byNeil Kinnock
Succeeded byJack Straw
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Life peerage
16 July 2001 – 1 August 2022
Member of Parliament
for North Durham
Chester-le-Street (1973–1983)
In office
1 March 1973 – 14 May 2001
Preceded byNorman Pentland
Succeeded byKevan Jones
Personal details
Born
Giles Heneage Radice

(1936-10-04)4 October 1936
London, England
Died25 August 2022(2022-08-25) (aged 85)
England
Political partyLabour
Spouse(s)
  • Penelope Angus
    (m. 1959; div. 1969)
  • Lisanne Koch
    (m. 1971)
Children2
Alma materMagdalen College, Oxford

Giles Heneage Radice, Baron Radice, PC (4 October 1936 – 25 August 2022) was a British Labour politician and author. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1973 to 2001. He later became a member of the House of Lords from 2001 until shortly before his death in 2022.[2][3]

Radice died from cancer on 25 August 2022, at age 85.[4]

References

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  1. "26/04/2009". Westminster Hour. 26 April 2009. BBC Radio 4. Archived from the original on 31 August 2022. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  2. "Mr Giles Radice". Hansard. Archived from the original on 6 May 2021. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  3. "Parliamentary career for Lord Radice – MPs and Lords". UK Parliament. Archived from the original on 13 May 2021. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  4. Langlois, André (28 August 2022). "'Wise and kind': Tributes to Labour politician Giles Radice". Ham & High. Archant. Archived from the original on 28 August 2022. Retrieved 29 August 2022.