Tony Benn

Radical statesman and Member of Parliament for over fifty years, Tony Benn (1925-2014) is the pre-eminent diarist of his generation. He held numerous offices in his long carrer as a Labour MP including Postmaster General, Chairman of the Party's National Executive Committee, Minister of Industry, His political activity continued after 'retirement' in 2014 when he was President of the Stop the War Coalition.