An icon of the Left, and champion of democracy and social justice, Tony Benn entered the Commons in 1950 and with Ted Heath held the record for post-war service as an MP.
Parliament, People and Power features a selection of his interviews with the
New Left Review, as Benn sets out his radical agenda for society, and reflects on a life in politics.
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Radical statesman and Member of Parliament for over fifty years, Tony Benn (1925-2014) is the pre-eminent diarist of his generation. He held numerous offices in his long carrer as a Labour MP including Postmaster General, Chairman of the Party’s National Executive Committee, Minister of Industry, His political activity continued after ‘retirement’ in 2014 when he was President of the Stop the War Coalition.