Lord Field of Birkenhead obituary

MP for Birkenhead for 40 years and former Labour minister who was asked to ‘think the unthinkable’ about welfare reformThe politician Frank Field, Lord Field of Birkenhead, who has died aged 81, was an authority on the strengths and shortcomings of the British welfare state.Labour for all but the end of his time in the Commons, he had many admirers across the political spectrum, including Conservatives who hoped he might join them. The Daily Mail so applauded his socially conservativ