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Tony Benn

Great Lives

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Tony Bend's Life

When Tony Bend died in 2014, even the then Prime Minister David Cameron offered warm words of praise. I remember going to Gastonbury and seeing Tony Bend speak there in a tent. It was classic rock star stuff. He said if you don't have your hand up now, you have no right to complain because you didn't exercise your democratic right to vote. There was no whooping. And I thought that was a really brave thing to say. But before we go, here's Tony Bend one last time.

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