2007
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3 giorni fa · Tony Benn’s exposure of corporate power stimulated thought on the left of the Labour Party about how to challenge it on a global level. We realised that traditional policies of public ownership were necessary but not sufficient.
3 giorni fa · Spitting Image is a British satirical television puppet show, created by Peter Fluck, Roger Law and Martin Lambie-Nairn. First broadcast in 1984, the series was produced by 'Spitting Image Productions' for Central Independent Television over 18 series which aired on the ITV network.
2 giorni fa · The parliament member and former Labour leader recounted hearing former Technology Minister Tony Benn speak at a Labour conference in 1970. He described meetings with large businesses, where representatives would come to his office with an air of superiority, acting like visiting emperors.
2 giorni fa · When Hilary Benn was appointed secretary of state by Keir Starmer on 5 July, it was his third cabinet post in his 25 years as an MP. He was international development secretary under Tony Blair from October 2003 to June 2007, and then environment secretary for Gordon Brown’s three-year term as PM. Son of stalwart left-wing Labour MP Tony Benn ...
2 giorni fa · It was only after the defeat of the final Wilson–Callaghan government in 1979, with its full imf austerity programme, that a deeper and broader challenge was mounted from the Labour left under the leadership of Tony Benn; Jeremy Corbyn was his dedicated lieutenant. footnote 26 This threat to the social and political order was not reflected in ...
2 giorni fa · Benn, the patrician politician who successfully renounced an aristocratic title, has been dead for more than a decade, though his eloquent advocacy of a radical reformism still inspires younger generations and haunts surviving figures on Labour’s right, not least Tony Blair, who revealed an envious admiration for Benn’s ...
2 giorni fa · Influenced by the Bristol Bus Boycott campaign, Bristol East MP Tony Benn joined Harold Wilson’s cabinet who introduced the 1965 Race Relations Act, which then evolved into the 2010 UK Equalities Act as it is known today. Guy’s work in race equality and social justice didn’t end there.
