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Westminster watch

Simon Barrow

BarrowVeteran former MP, ex-cabinet minis- ter and social justice campaigner Tony Benn was famous for his frequent appeals to the media to focus on 'policies not personalities.' In truth the two have always been intertwined in the mod- ern era, from Lloyd George and Churchill to Guevara, Obama and beyond.

Even Benn, once a hate figure for the tabloid press, has latterly become a ...

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