17 Facts About Giles Radice

Giles Radice served as a Member of Parliament from 1973 to 2001, representing part of County Durham, and then as a life peer in the House of Lords from 2001 until shortly before his death in 2022.

Giles Radice was educated at Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford.

Giles Radice then worked as a research officer for the General and Municipal Workers' Union and was chair of the Young Fabians from 1967 to 1968.

Giles Radice first stood for Parliament at Chippenham in 1964 and 1966, but came third each time.

Giles Radice was elected Labour Member of Parliament for Chester-le-Street from a 1973 by-election to 1983 and then North Durham until his retirement in 2001.

Giles Radice served as Education spokesman in the Labour Shadow Cabinet under Neil Kinnock in the 1980s.

Giles Radice was a member of the House of Lords European Union Sub-Committee on external affairs until March 2015.

Giles Radice was made a life peer as Baron Radice, of Chester-le-Street in the County of Durham, on 16 July 2001.

Giles Radice retired from the House of Lords on 1 August 2022.

Giles Radice returned to this theme following Labour's 2010 defeat: his "Southern Discomfort Again" pamphlet found that voters perceived that Labour had run out of steam, were out of touch, unfair and poorly led.

Giles Radice adds to his historical approach not only a readable writing style, but the judgements of an experienced Labour politician.

Lord Giles Radice had been a member of the advisory board of the Centre for British Studies of Berlin's Humboldt University since 1998.

Giles Radice was a chair of the British Association for Central and Eastern Europe, and chair of the European Movement, from 1995 to 2001.

Giles Radice was a chairman of Policy Network, the international progressive thinktank based in London.

Giles Radice married Penelope Angus in 1959; they had two daughters and divorced in 1969.

Giles Radice was a longtime resident of Camden, living in Gloucester Crescent in the 1960s before relocating to Parliament Hill.

Giles Radice died from cancer on 25 August 2022, at age 85.