 He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Northfield from 1951 until he stood down in 1970.He was a Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford from 1971 to 1973, Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Economics at the University of Sussex from 1973 to 1979, Chairman of the Rural Development Commission from 1974 to 1980 and Special Adviser to the ECC Commission on Environmental Policy in 1981.From 1985 to 1988, he was Director of Wembley Stadium.