2014
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20 hours ago · Mr Benn is the son of former Cabinet minister, author and veteran left-wing campaigner Tony Benn, who also held office during the Labour governments of the 1960s and 70s. Going back even further ...
4 days ago · Benn, the patrician politician who successfully renounced an aristocratic title, has been dead for more than a decade, though his eloquent advocacy of a radical reformism still inspires younger generations and haunts surviving figures on Labour’s right, not least Tony Blair, who revealed an envious admiration for Benn’s oratorical powers.
1 day ago · Hilary Benn said it is a “great honour” to be appointed as Northern Ireland Secretary as he pledged to help the region reach “its full potential”. Mr Benn had been serving as the shadow NI ...
10 hours ago · Hilary Benn - Northern Ireland Secretary Benn is the son of the late left-wing minister and campaigner Tony Benn, who served under Prime Ministers Harold Wilson and James Callaghan. His role as Northern Ireland secretary comes after a stint as chair of the Commons Brexit committee.
20 hours ago · Hilary Benn is the son of the late left-wing minister and campaigner Tony Benn, who served under prime ministers Harold Wilson and James Callaghan.
20 hours ago · His father, prominent Left-winger Tony Benn, was energy secretary under James Callaghan and Harold Wilson, having previously served as industry secretary under the latter between 1974 and 1975 ...
4 days ago · In taking Diane Abbott, Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn, Ken Livingstone and John McDonnell as major figures worthy of a deep historical study, it has already achieved the negative virtue of alternately smug and scornful broadsheet reviews.
