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Tony Benn
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
(3 April 1925 – 14 March 2014), originally known as
Anthony Wedgwood Benn
, but later as
Tony Benn
, was a British
politician
who was a
Member of Parliament
(MP) for 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, ideologically identifying as a
democratic socialist
.
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