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 Oxfam. Frank Judd repeatedly cautioned Wilson against giving ground to Ian Smith after Rhodesia declared UDI; he was instrumental as minister for the Navy in ending the Simonstown Agreement with South Africa; and he protected the aid budget from cuts demanded by the IMF.