Tony Benn was for decades the most independent-minded, powerful and passionate voice of the hard-left at Westminster, and the man whose crusading zeal led to the new law which allowed him to renounce his own peerage and return to the House of Commons. There was no one else in his era who so superbly and with such fire led the left and who so utterly ignored his own personal prospects in order to get his message across. He served in Harold Wilson's cabinets, but was a constant thorn in the then...
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