2014
Resultado da Busca
Há 12 horas · IN ANY crisis Tony Benn was always the best person to turn to for an answer. And so it is now. Europe is faced with the resurgent success of far-right parties. Both the left and centre right struggle for answers. Meanwhile, climate scientists report that we had the world’s warmest May on record (and the 12th consecutive month doing so).
Há 2 dias · Grayson’s biographer David Clark spots a telling likeness between his subject and two other party-splitting Labour superstars: Tony Benn and Oswald Mosley. It’s not impossible to conceive of Grayson, had he not disappeared, eclipsing Mosley on the platform of the British Union of Fascists.
Há 4 dias · 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.
Há 4 dias · He was elected to the House of Commons in 2005 and Prime Minister Tony Blair made him Minister for the Third Sector in May 2006. When Brown became Prime Minister in 2007, he appointed Miliband Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
Há 1 dia · What’s needed is to “fundamentally change the constitution, as Tony Benn tried to do with the Commonwealth of Britain Bill”. But who are the inheritors of Bennism? Andy Beckett’s recent account of the 1968 generation in The Searchers – featuring pen portraits of Benn, Corbyn, John McDonnell, Diane Abbott and Ken Livingstone – suggests that it has few contemporary analogues.
Há 12 horas · Most of the old seat plus 20% of Elmet and Rothwell. This is Richard Burgon’s seat. He wrote his thesis on Tony Benn’s influence on the Labour party, and has been trying to recreate it ever since. A loyal Corbynite, who was the left candidate against Angela Rayner for the deputy leadership in 2020.
Há 1 dia · In response, influential left-wing Labour parliamentarians such as Eric Heffer and Tony Benn, who had previously been strongly pro-Zionist, felt compelled to resign from Labour Friends of Israel – a pro-Israel lobby group that continues to operate today, works closely with the Israeli embassy and refuses to reveal its funding sources.
