Tony Blair vs. Tony Benn
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Tony Blair
1953 – present
Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007, and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He was Leader of the Opposition from 1994 to 1997 and held shadow cabinet posts from 1987 to 1994. Blair was Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007.
"I couldn't live with myself if I thought that these big strategic choices for my generation were there, and I wasn't even making them – or I was making them acc…"
Tony Benn
1925 – 2014
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn, known between 1960 and 1963 as The Viscount Stansgate, was a British Labour Party politician and political activist who served as a Cabinet minister in the 1960s and 1970s. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bristol South East and Chesterfield for 47 of the 51 years between 1950 and 2001. He later served as President of the Stop the War Coalition from 2001 to 2014.
"Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation and the end of our democratically elected P…"
Connections
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