Organization Privy Council

Magdalen College, Oxford University

Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom

Inner Temple (1975)

Brick Court Chambers

Queen's Counsel (1986)

Master of the Bench, Inner Temple (1991)

University of Oxford

Inns of Court

Society of Authors

Lincoln's Inn

Cambridge Apostles

UK Parliament (Member of Parliament)

Church of England

Société Nationale Elf Aquitaine

Enterprise Oil

National Union of Journalists (activist | president | 1978-1979)

International Metal Workers' Federation (policy director | 1980-1992)

Labour Party (MP for Rotherham | 1994-2012)

UK government (Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Balkans and Latin America | 2001-2002 | Minister of State for Europe | 2002-2005)

All-Party Parliamentary Group against Antisemitism (chair of the inquiry panel | 2006)

United Utilities (advisor | 2006-2007)

European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (chair | 2009)

Supporters of Nuclear Energy (patron)

Independent Labour Party

Labour Party

Arts Council of Great Britain

Open University

National Coal Board

Trades Union Congress

Labour Party

International Federation of Trade Unions

Daily Herald

Supreme Court of Uganda (advocate)

Church of England (clergyman | bishop | 1996-2005 | archbishop | 2005-2020)

Youth for Christ (president | 2004)

YMCA (president | 2005)

House of Lords (2005)

Great Universal Stores (executive | 1956-1961)

Eldonwall Ltd (founder | 1961)

Town & City Properties PLC (T&CP | board member | 1970-1975)

Manufacturers Hanover Property Services (chair | 1975-1980)

British ORT (vocational training charity | chair)

Manpower Services Commission (chair | 1981)

Salomon Inc. (director | 1989)

Cable & Wireless (executive chairman | 1989 | retired | 1995)

Jewish Care (first president | 1990-1997)

Institute of Directors (president | 1993)

University College, London (council chair | 1995)

Young Associates Ltd (co-founder | 1996)

Whittington College, London (mastership | 1431)

St Asaph (diocese | bishop | 1444-1449)

Chichester (diocese | bishop | 1450-1459)

Welsh Labour Party (member | leader | 2018)

South Glamorgan County Council (county councillor | Pontcanna ward | 1985-1993 | Chair of the Education Committee)

University College of Swansea (lecturer in applied social studies | 1991-1995)

University of Wales, Cardiff (School of Social and Admin Studies | lecturer | senior lecturer | 1999 | Professor of Social Policy and Applied Social Sciences | 2003-2013)

Welsh Government (special advisor on health and social policy | 2000 | Minister for Health and Social Services | 2013 | Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government | 2016 | First Minister | 2018)

Senedd Cymru (member | Cardiff West | 2011 | Chair of the Assembly’s Health and Social Care Committee | Chair of the All-Wales Programme Monitoring Committee for European Funds)

Bank of England

Oxford University

House of Lords

King's Royal Rifle Corps

Conservative Party

Carleton University (chancellor)

Northwest Territories (commissioner)

Church of England

Liberal Party of Canada

Dalhousie University

University of King's College

Financial Post

Parliament of Canada

Toronto French School

Labour Party (member | 1949-2023 | MP | 1970-2001 | life peer | 2001-2023))

Royal Air Force (national service at Cape Collinson camp in Hong Kong)

National Union of Public Employees (NUPE | official | 1960-1969)

Paddington borough council (member | 1962-1965)

Derby Constituency Labour Party (chair | 1966)

Stalybridge and Hyde (MP | 1970-2001)

UK House of Commons (member | 1970-2001)

Football Trust (chair | 1997-1999)

Football Foundation (chair | 1999 | president | 2003)

UK House of Lords (life peer | 2001-2023)

Liberal Party

Labour Party