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‘He did it years before William Donaldson did The Henry Root Letters,’ said my husband querulously, as though I had accused him on peak-time television of saying the opposite. The ‘he’ in question was Humphry Berkeley, who as a Cambridge undergraduate just after the second world war pursued an elaborate hoax by assuming the identity

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Lord Judd, Labour MP who fought apartheid and became a vigorous director of Oxfam – obituary Persistent rather than militant, he was radical on foreign policy and was the first Labour figure to advocate a referendum on joining the EC Frank Judd in 1977 Credit: ITN/Shutterstock Lord Judd, who has died aged 86, was an internationalist Labour minister under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan who pressed for an end to white rule in southern Africa; he was later an equally committed director of Oxf...