Tony Benn

Tony Benn

Tony Benn retired from Parliament in 2001 after more than 50 years to ‘devote more time to politics’. The longest serving Labour MP in the history of the party he served as a cabinet minister under Wilson and Callaghan.

Articles by Tony Benn

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Benn's warning to Labour

  • 23 September 2007
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Veteran politician and campaigner Tony Benn warns moves afoot at this year's conference to shave yet more power from the rank and file could endanger Labour's very future

Apocalypse now

  • 24 July 2000

Iraq Under Siege: the deadly impact of sanctions and war Edited by Anthony Arnove Pluto Press, 216pp, £10.99 ISBN 074531659X

Under Bevan, we stayed up all night to end the means test; now, we stay up all night to reintroduce it

  • 31 May 1999

Rule one: everybody must agree

  • 05 March 1999

The real purpose of the pro-Europe alliance is to stifle democracy, believes Tony Benn

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