Tony Benn
Tony Benn
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn, originally known as Anthony Wedgwood Benn or Wedgie Benn, but later as Tony Benn, was a British politician who was a Member of Parliamentfor 47 years between the 1950 and 2001 general elections and a Cabinet minister in the Labour governments of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan in the 1960s and 1970s. Originally a "moderate", he was identified as being on the party's hard left from the early 1980s, and was widely seen as a key...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth3 April 1925
please-me old-wounds energy
Through me the energy policy of the whole Common Market is being held up. Without opening old wounds, it pleases me no end.
mistake making-mistakes politics
Making mistakes is how you learn.
mistake making-mistakes made
I've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn.
tabloids campaigns thanks
Thanks to the tabloid campaigns I have many death threats and I was very pleased to get another one the other day.
internet bigs scales
The Internet is only the street corner meeting on a big scale
encouragement league people
Encouragement is the most important thing in the world for young people, rather than league tables, which demoralise everyone.
favour life means
At the end of my life, I was told to vote for it for pensioners; I' m not in favour of means tests for pensioners or anybody.
romantic suppose
I think if you're going to be committed to doing anything, you really have to care about it, and I suppose that is a romantic idea.