Authentic Autographs from Chaucer Covers-Historical Autographs-Tony Benn signature piece

Tony Benn signature piece
[HMA256]

~~£20.00~~ £10.00

HMA256 An excellent signature piece of Tony Benn, the famous British socialist politician and the current President of the Stop The War Coalition. Anthony 'Tony' Neil Wedgwood Benn (born 3 April 1925), formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, is a British socialist politician and the current President of the Stop the War Coalition. With his successful campaign to renounce his inherited title, Benn was instrumental in the creation of the Peerage Act 1963. Later, in the second Wilson government (1966-70) he was a notably 'technocratic' Minister of Technology. In the 1974-76 government of Harold Wilson, he initially served as Secretary of State for Industry before being transferred to Secretary of State for Energy, Benn retaining his post when James Callaghan replaced Wilson as Prime Minister. During the 1970s and 1980s, he was the prominent figure on the left of the Labour Party. The term 'Bennite' (never used by Benn himself) came to be used in Britain for someone of a radical democratic left-wing position. After John Parker, he is Labour's longest serving member of parliament. He is known as one of the few UK politicians to have become left-wing after holding ministerial office. He also has become ever more interested in the grass-roots politics of demonstrations and meetings, and ever less in parliamentary activities. He has been a vegetarian since the 1970s.

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