Tony Benn Free At Last! Diaries 1991-2001 ISBN 13: 9780099415022

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Tony Benn is the longest serving MP in the history of the Labour Party. He left Parliament in 2001, after more than half a century in the House of Commons, to devote more time to politics. This volume of his Diaries describes and comments, in a refreshing and honest way, upon the events of a momentous decade including two world wars, a change of government in Britain and the emergence of New Labour, of which he makes clear he is not a member. Tony Benn's account is a well documented, formidable and principled critique of the New Labour Project, full of drama, opinion, humour, anecdotes and sparkling pen-portraits of politicians on both sides of the political divide. But his narrative is also broader and more revealing about day-to-day political life, covering many aspects normally disregarded by historians and lobby correspondents, relating to his work in the constituency, including his advice surgeries. This volume also offers far more of an insight into Tony Benn's personal life, his thoughts about the future and his relationship with his family, especially his remarkable wife Caroline, whose illness and death overshadow these years. Tony Benn is a unique figure on the British political landscape: a true democrat, a passionate socialist and diarist without equal. With this volume, his published Diaries cover British politics for over sixty years. It is edited, as are all others, by Ruth Winstone.

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"The new volume is, to my mind, the best - he discards his Sunday best and allows himself to emerge as a human being full of weakness and anxieties balanced by an enviable capacity for love and joy" (Craig Brown Mail on Sunday)

"There is a passion in Benn's writing and speaking that far transcends the miserable aspirations of most contemporary politicians" (Paul Foot Guardian)

"It is the personal side of the story that most compels...This is the unselfconscious reminiscence of a man in full" (Daily Telegraph)

"This is a powerful record of the times" (Simon Heffer)

"Easily the best of the year's diaries... It proves to be an astonishingly moving and human document" (Anthony Howard, Sunday Times)
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The published diaries of one of Britain's most famous politicians. A fascinating insight into twentieth century British politics.

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  • PublisherArrow
  • Publication date2003
  • ISBN 10 009941502X
  • ISBN 13 9780099415022
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages768
  • EditorRuth Winstone
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