Lord Triesman, a former Labour minister and ex-chairman of the Football Association, died 30 January, 2026, at the age of 82.
Labour’s leader in the House of Lords, Baroness Smith, led tributes to her former colleague, whom she described as “respected and loved by his colleagues for his courtesy, kindness, wisdom, loyalty and generosity of spirit”. The former prime minister Sir Tony Blair meanwhile said the peer was a “vital part of the New Labour movement”.
David Maxim Triesman, Baron Triesman (born 30 October 1943) was a politician, merchant banker and trade union leader. Triesman was a Labour member of the House of Lords. He previously sat as a Labour peer until resigning the whip in July 2019, then having previously been a minister in the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills and Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He sat non-affiliated in the House of Lords until 2020 when he rejoined Labour. Triesman was chairman of the Football Association from 2008 to 2010.
He was raised to the peerage for life on 9 January 2004, and his title was gazetted in the name, style and title of Baron Triesman, of Tottenham in the London Borough of Haringey.
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