He retired as joint managing director of Marks and Spencer plc in 1999.
He is currently a director of several non-government organisations, a retail company and is involved in several charities. He also chairs the charity DIPEx that helps patients gain information on their condition and their options.
In October 2019, he was suspended from the Labour peers group.
Professional career
He joined Marks & Spencer as a trainee in 1966 and retired from his position as joint managing director of the company in 1999.
He is a director of N Brown Group plc. He was the non-executive chairman of Deal Group Media plc until 2007, when he resigned from this position.[1] He is an advisory board member of The Next Century Foundation.
He was the chairman of Sindicatum Climate Change Foundation and chairman of The DIPEx Charity, a charitable health organisation. He is a governor of the Weizmann Institute of Science and honorary vice president of The Movement for Reform Judaism.
He has listed his political interests as conflict resolution, art and science, health and ecology.[6]
In October 2019, he was suspended from the Labour peers group after the House of Lords standards committee found that he had harassed four female colleagues and made transphobic remarks. He also repeatedly used the N-word in evidence to the commissioner in a bid to defend his conduct.[7]
In December 2024, the House of Lords recommended that Lord Stone be suspended for six months after finding that he had bullied parliamentary security staff after he had left his suitcase unattended next to a parliamentary estate entrance.[8][9][10] A full report on his conduct was published by the House of Lords Conduct Committee on 12 December 2024.[11]
On 5th December 2025 it was announced that Lord Stone had retired from the House of Lords, after further complaints about his conduct had been received.[12]
Coat of arms of Andrew Stone, Baron Stone of Blackheath
Crest
A dragon passant Gules gorged with a collar attached thereto a chain reflexed over the back and grasping in the dexter foot a pair of open scissors Or.
Escutcheon
Paly of four Vert and Gules four arms embowed in armour elbows outwards those in base reversed and all conjoined at the shoulder Proper garnished Or those in chief grasping a sword the blades downwards in saltire Argent hilts pommels and quillons Or and those in base each grasping a sword blades upwards in saltire Argent hilts pommels and quillons Or.
Supporters
Upon a compartment composed of stones Proper on the dexter side a ram Sable armed and unguled Or and holding in the mouth a sprig of heather Proper and on the sinister side a ram Sable armed and unguled Or holding in the mouth a sprig of calceolaria Proper.[15]
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