I tell the Prime Minister that this is an ill-thought-out e… - Tony Benn

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I tell the Prime Minister that this is an ill-thought-out enterprise and will not achieve the purposes to which it is put.

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Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn (3 April 1925 – 14 March 2014), known between 1960 and 1963 as Viscount Stansgate, was a British Labour Party politician and diarist who served as a Cabinet minister in the 1960s and 1970s. He was the Member of Parliament 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.

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Alternative Names: Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn • Viscount Stansgate • 2nd Viscount Stansgate

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