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Hilary Benn led Commons tributes to his father Tony yesterday for leading a life that "inspires and encourages."
He told MPs how much Tony Benn, who won 16 elections, "loved" Parliament and how he was devastated when he was initially barred from entering the Commons upon inheriting his father's peerage in 1960 "because it was alleged that his blood was blue."
Mr Benn told the House: "His blood was never blue, it was the deepest red throughout his life."
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RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
LYNNE WALSH tells the story of the extraordinary race against time to ensure London’s memorial to the International Brigades got built – as activists gather next week to celebrate the monument’s 40th anniversary
When a couple moves in downstairs, gentrification begins with waffles and coffee, and proceeds via horticultural sabotage to legal action