Frank Field
Born: 16th July 1942
Died: 23rd April 2024
Age: 81
Category: Politics
Frank Ernest Field, Baron Field of Birkenhead, CH, PC, DL was a British politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Birkenhead for 40 years, from 1979 to 2019, serving as a Labour MP until August 2018 and thereafter sitting as an independent.
In 2019, he formed the Birkenhead Social Justice Party and stood unsuccessfully as its sole candidate in the 2019 election. After leaving the House of Commons, he was awarded a life peerage in 2020 and sat in the House of Lords as a crossbencher.
On 22 October 2021, Field announced that he was terminally ill and had spent time in a hospice. Baroness Meacher read out a statement from him in the House of Lords during a debate on the Assisted Dying Bill, which he supported.
In January 2023 he revealed he had been suffering from prostate cancer for 10 years and it had spread to his jaw. He remarked: "It's a strange experience taking so long to die."
Frank Field died at a care home in London.