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    William Benn was elevated to the House of Lords and Tony Benn was subsequently titled with the honorific prefix, The Honourable. William Benn was given...
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    Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown from 2001 to 2010. Born in Hammersmith, London, he is the second son of veteran Labour MP Tony Benn and educationalist...
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    MP Tony Benn, she is the eldest child and only daughter of the 3rd Viscount Stansgate by his wife Nita Clarke (née Bowes). Emily Sophia Wedgwood Benn was...
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    educationalist and writer, and wife of Labour politician Tony Benn (formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate). Benn was born Caroline Middleton DeCamp in Cincinnati,...
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  • general. By the time of the 1966 general election, Wilson was telling Tony Benn to prepare to take over because "I can't think Frank Cousins will stay...
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  • Anthony Benn (cricketer) (1912–2008), British cricketer and army officer Tony Benn (1925–2014), British politician and writer Anthony Benin (born 1950),...
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    He was the father of the politician William Benn, and the grandfather of the politician Tony Benn. Benn was born in Manchester, to a middle-class family...
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    Wedgwood Benn, 3rd Viscount Stansgate (born 21 August 1951), is a British hereditary peer and Labour member of the House of Lords. Stansgate's father, Tony Benn...
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    was the father of Tony Benn and the paternal grandfather of Hilary Benn. Born in Hackney, Benn was the second son of Sir John Benn, 1st Baronet. He was...
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  • William Rutherford Benn, later William Rutherford, (1855–1921) was an English translator and journalist, and a member of the political Benn family. In 1883...
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    expressed opposition to a compulsory oath made to an unelected monarch. Tony Benn in 1992 stated, when he took the oath, "As a dedicated republican, I solemnly...
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  • left MPs, led by Neil Kinnock, refused to back Tony Benn's campaign, leading a number of left-wing Benn-supporting MPs to split from the Tribune Group...
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    Executive Committee. Lansman has worked for both Tony Benn and Michael Meacher, and was a prominent supporter of Benn in the early 1980s. Lansman was brought up...
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  • professional career. Benn has been trained by Tony Sims since his professional debut, with his father, Nigel, having known and sparred with Tony since both of...
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    Viscount Stansgate (category Tony Benn)
    for him to do so. As of 2022[update], the title is held by Tony Benn's eldest son, Stephen Benn, 3rd Viscount Stansgate. Stansgate is a hamlet near the village...
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  • Labour Member of Parliament Tony Benn, whose majority was nearly 6,000 votes. Tony Benn's father died on 17 November 1960, and Benn inherited his peerage as...
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  • Parliamentary Labour Party, but it split over Tony Benn's bid for the deputy leadership of the party in 1981, with Benn's supporters forming the Campaign Group...
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    approached by Tony Benn and "encouraged ... to produce a blueprint for workers' control of British Leyland"; the plans did not proceed after Benn was moved...
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  • granddaughter of Tony Benn Sir Ernest Benn, 2nd Baronet (1875–1954), British publisher Gottfried Benn (1886–1956), German poet Hilary Benn (born 1953), British...
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  • represented by former leader Michael Foot, from the hard left, represented by Tony Benn. People belonging to the soft left may be called soft leftists or Tribunites...
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    Scotland Awards for his performance. He also portrayed British politician Tony Benn in a supporting role in A United Kingdom, a 2016 film about Seretse Khama...
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    to Socialism through Marxism" and considered himself on the left. Like Tony Benn, Blair believed that the "Labour right" was bankrupt, saying "[s]ocialism...
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  • Economic Strategy (AES) is the name of an economic programme proposed by Tony Benn, a dissident member of the British Labour Party, during the 1970s and...
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  • with Booth for former Minister for Technology Tony Benn at the 1984 Chesterfield by-election, which Benn won. She owned the Navigation Inn, a pub in Buxworth...
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  • Health in Tony Blair's government, and then as a researcher at the Open University, under Professor Stuart Hall, working on deaths in custody. Benn then worked...
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  • Wilson in November 1968. He served briefly as a junior minister under Tony Benn at the Ministry of Technology from 1969. During the Labour Party's period...
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    super-ministry of technology, a connexion not always publicly grasped, under Tony Benn. The continued relevance of industrial nationalisation (a centrepiece...
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    internal evidence in some diaries (e.g. those of Ned Rorem, Alan Clark, Tony Benn or Simon Gray) that they are written with eventual publication in mind...
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    and later Labour politician William Wedgwood Benn and an uncle of the Labour politician Tony Benn. Benn was born in Oxted, Surrey. He attended the Central...
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