 He was a member of the Press Complaints Commission between 1995 and 2002.As a Liberal Party candidate, Tordoff contested Northwich in the 1964 general election and Knutsford in the 1966 general election and 1970 general election.On 11 May 1981 he was created a life peer as Baron Tordoff, of Knutsford in the County of Cheshire and sat in the House of Lords as a Liberal Democrat until his retirement on 13 October 2016.