Tributes have been paid to Lord Field of Birkenhead, the former Labour minister and crossbench peer, who has died at the age of 81.
A statement from Field’s family, issued by his parliamentary office, said that the former minister had died following “a period of illness”.
Field revealed in January last year that he had been suffering from prostate cancer for ten years and that the cancer had spread to his jaw. At the time, he remarked: “It’s a strange experience taking so long to die.”
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Speaking to The Times after the release of his memoir last year, Field said: “I’ve already decided my headstone, which is Frank Field and my MP membership of
