Labour’s Chair of Nations and Regions Andrew Rosenfeld passes away, aged 52

Andrew Rosenfeld, Labour’s Chair of Nations and Regions and one of the biggest donors to the party, has passed away after a short illness. He was 52.

Rosenfeld was the founder of Minerva Capital and became politicised whilst helping to raise over a quarter of a billion pounds for the NSPCC. In recent years he was the Chairman of mobile operator TPO.

Rosenfeld worked within the party on building up Labour’s supporter base, and was a friend of Ed Miliband’s. The Labour leader responded to the news of Rosenfeld’s passing this morning:

“I am deeply saddened by the sudden death of my friend, Andrew Rosenfeld. My thoughts are with Juliet and his family.”

Rosenfeld described his efforts to change the way the party engages with supporters in a 2013 interview with LabourList:

“How do I best build a relationship with you so that you feel that you have a proper mature dialogue with me and the Party, so that you can help in whatever way you feel  interests you?  It may be endorsing Ed or a local MP.  It may be a small level of fundraising, it may be a larger level of fundraising. You may be able to provide resource straight into a target marginal.  But it is something that will emerge from the dialogue that we have and the relationship that we build.”

The thoughts of everyone at LabourList are with Andrew Rosenfeld’s family, friends and colleagues at this sad time.