Labour politician and former deputy leader Roy Hattersley spent 33 years as an MP and was made a life peer when he left the Commons

Labour politician and former deputy leader Roy Hattersley spent 33 years as an MP and was made a life peer when he left the Commons

Labour grandee was MP for Birmingham Sparkbrook from 1964 until his retirement from the Commons in 1997

Keir Starmer led the tributes to party’s former deputy leader