The Limits of Tony Ben's Ambition in 1981

John Wars: Was deputy the limit of Tony Ben's ambitions during that period? John Wars, was that merely a staging post? Had he won? Was the leadership in his sights? I think it's quite clear from looking at his diaries that, you know, he rarely had the leadership in mind. It becomes increasingly obvious at the end that he wasn't going to happen. The Falklands War transformed Margaret Thatcher from what looked like a failed economic experiment with monetarism into a war leader. If Tony Bennett won the deputy leadership, then Michael Foote and Tony Bennett, the leaders of the late party would have been painted by the conservatives as being unpatriotic,. And it