Tony Benn

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"David Powell's fascinating biography traces Tony Benn's extraordinary fifty-year political career from the day he first entered the House of Commons in 1950. Benn has always been a controversial figure. Nonetheless many of the policies he championed, including some for which he was widely belittled, have since entered the statute books. Indeed, if history is a chronicle of ironies, there can have been little more ironic than when, following Benn's valedictory speech in the Commons in 2001, a Tory backbencher commended him to fellow MPs as Britain's 'greatest living Parliamentarian.'"--Bloomsbury Publishing.

subjects: Politics and government,  Politicians,  Biography,  Politicians, great britain,  Great britain, politics and government, 1945-,  Benn, tony, 1925-2014

People: Tony Benn (1925-)

Places: Great Britain

Times: 1945-