Giles Radice, Baron Radice

Giles Heneage Radice, Baron Radice, of Chester -le- Street in the County of Durham, PC ( born October 4, 1936) is a British trade union official and Labour Party politician, who for 28 years Member of the House of Commons since 2001 and was member of the House of Lords.

Life

Lower house deputy and opposition politicians

Radice graduated after visiting the Winchester College to study at Magdalen College, University of Oxford and then worked as a union official and most recently head of the research department of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers ( GMWU ). In the general election on October 15, 1964 and March 31, 1966 he was a candidate for the Labour Party there twice in the constituency of Chippenham for a parliamentary seat in the House.

In a by-election Radice was first elected on March 1, 1973 at the constituency Chester -le- Street to MPs in the House of Commons and represented that constituency until the general election on 9 June 1983 before he followed up to the elections on June 7, 2001 the constituency of North Durham in the House of Commons represented. During his long parliamentary membership Radice, who was from 1978 to 1982 Member of the Advisory Board of the think tank Policy Studies Institute, Parliamentary 1978-1979 Private Secretary to the then Minister for Education and Science, Shirley Williams was, and then from 1980 to 1983 and chairman of the party 's internal group for manifestos of the Labour Party.

After a short time in 1981 was spokesman for the opposition Labour Group for Foreign Affairs, he served from 1981 to 1983 as an opposition spokesman on employment. In 1983 he was appointed to the Shadow Cabinet and his party held in this until 1987, the function of the "shadow minister " for education.

After that, he was between 1995 and 2001 Chairman of the European Movement and since 1997 Chairman of the British Association for Central and Eastern Europe. He was also from 1996 to 1997, first Chairman of the House Committee on the Civil Service and in connection 1997-2001 Chairman of the House Committee on the Treasury (Treasury). He was also 1999, Privy Councillor.

House of Lords member

By Letters Patent of 16 July 2001 Radice was raised after his retirement from the House of Commons as a life peer with the title Baron Radice, of Chester -le- Street in the County of Durham in the peerage. Shortly after, on 23 October 2001 was his introduction ( Introduction) as a member of the House of Lords. In the upper house he belongs to the Group of the Labour Party.

In the following years, he was from 2002 to 2006 Chairman of the Subcommittee of the House of Lords Select Committee on European economy and temporarily also a member of the Subcommittee on European foreign policy. Furthermore, Lord Radice committed from 2002 to 2007 ls chairman of the French -British Council and is also since 2007 Chairman of the Social Democratic think tank Policy Network.

Publications

• Labour 's Path to Power: The New Revisionism. Macmilan Palgrave, 1989, ISBN 0-333-48072-4.
• Southern Discomfort. Fabian Society, 1992, ISBN 0-7163-0555-0.
• Offshore: Britain and the European Idea. I.B.Tauris, 1992, ISBN 1-85043-362-3.
• The New Germans. Michael Joseph, 1995, ISBN 0-7181-3780-9.
• Friends and Rivals: Crosland, Jenkins and Healey. 2002, Little Brown, ISBN 0-316-85547-2.
• Friends and Rivals. Octagon Press, 2003, ISBN 0-349-11734-9.
• Diaries 1980-2001: The Political Diaries of Giles Radice. Orion, 2004, ISBN 0-349-11734-9.
• The Tortoise and the Hare: Attlee, Bevin, Cripps, Dalton, Morrison. Politico's Publishing, 2008, ISBN 978-1-84275-223-4.
• Trio: Inside the Blair, Brown, Mandelson Project. I.B.Tauris, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84885-445-1.
• Patrick Diamond: Southern Discomfort Again. Policy Network, 2010.
• Patrick Diamond: Southern Discomfort Again: One Year On. Policy Network, 2011.