🏛️ Politics 9h ago · James Fenton

From the archive: Inside the mind of Tony Benn

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In July 1977, Tony Benn and five other Labour MPs defied James Callaghan’s leadership by voting against the European Assembly Elections Bill. The rebellion prompted the writer James Fenton to wonder: what was it like to be Tony Benn?



At about ten to eight last Friday morning a grey-haired gentleman, with features expressive of permanent surprise, could be seen walking along Holland Park Avenue, carrying a large bundle of newspapers. He was clearly engrossed in what he was reading, and a curi

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