Benn served in both Harold Wilson’s and James Callaghan’s Labour governments ... The establishment normally deals with new ideas by first ignoring them, and then, if you go on, saying you ...

Tony Benn, the former Labour Party MP died yesterday ... culminating in the ditching of Clause Four and the creation of Blair’s “New Labour” Party. Benn became increasingly marginalised ...

A number of reasons account for this disappointment: his party was on its long drift rightwards from the 1960s, culminating in the leadership of “New Labour” by the Tory-lite Tony Blair (Benn ...

In many places hostility to New Labour was so strong I realised we will ... For three weeks we have heard in great detail what Tony Blair, Michael Howard and Charles Kennedy have been doing ...

David Cameron said of Labour veteran on Twitter: "Tony Benn was a magnificent ... "Admired so many things about Benn: unwavering principles; always open to new ideas; stellar political speaker ...

But his son’s politics have been seen as very different; the New Labour stalwart gave a speech in support of military action in Syria which prompted Alex Salmond to say Tony Benn would have been ...

It is interesting to think what might have happened to the future stars of New Labour in that Alliance government (which, ironically, would probably have been considerably more progressive than Tony ...

During the 1959 election campaign, the Labour Party made bold experiments with the use of the new medium of television, in which the pioneers were the MPs Tony Benn and Woodrow Wyatt. He was one ...

14 March 2014 • 9:06am Tony Benn, the veteran Labour politician ... of life", he actually attended Westminster School and New College, Oxford. He was president of the Union in 1947.