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 governor of the Weizmann Institute of Science and honorary vice president of The Movement for Reform Judaism.

[5] 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.

Lord Stone was awarded an honorary degree, A Doctor of Law, at Oxford Brookes University.