They also reveal Chancellor Denis Healey and Industry Secretary Tony Benn at odds over policy.
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In another upset in the region Tony Benn's former Chesterfield constituency fell to the Liberal Democrats.
Veteran politician Tony Benn said Pinter was a great figure on the political scene.
It also lost Tony Benn's former seat of Chesterfield to the Lib Dems.
Caroline Benn, the biographer, renowned educationalist and wife of former cabinet minister Tony Benn, has died in hospital after a long illness.
Among those giving evidence have been songwriter Billy Bragg, former peer Tony Benn, Tory Lords leader Lord Strathclyde and film maker Lord Puttnam.
Tony Benn said of her that politicians were divided between weather vanes and signposts and that Margaret Thatcher was a signpost and he respected that.
There was a time when a contribution from Tony Benn or Ted Heath would have sent MPs and journalists running into the chamber to listen.
Former Labour MP Tony Benn recalled his surprise at meeting her at the memorial service to another left winger, Eric Heffer, former Labour MP for Liverpool Walton.
As well as being married to the veteran Labour MP Tony Benn she was mother to another, Hilary Benn, elected for Leeds Central in a by-election last year.
From the vantage point of the supposedly classless 1990s, the effort which Anthony Wedgwood Benn put into reinventing himself as plain Tony Benn may sound like an affectation.
Pundits have been predicting that the North Sea would run out of oil ever since Tony Benn, the then secretary of state for energy, turned on the tap in 1975.
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In doing so, he inadvertently destroyed the chance of Denis Healey, a fellow right-winger, to succeed him and allowed Tony Benn's constituency Jacobins to spread their terror through the party.
"She said what she meant and meant what she said and did what she said she would do, " said Tony Benn, a radical left-wing minister in the Labour governments that preceded Mrs.
She fussed over me when I visited Downing Street at the time of the Chesterfield by-election and was keen that I had whatever support I wanted in that epic struggle against Tony Benn.
It was brilliant to be exposed to such a variety of stimulating events, ranging from main stages (obviously), Jazz World stage, Lost Vagueness as well as Leftfield (saw Tony Benn there on Sunday afternoon).
He was a leading member of the GLC during Ken Livingstone's heyday and soon after his election in 1983, offered to resign his seat so that Tony Benn could re-enter Parliament to stand as Labour's leader.
But the "hard left" remained a problem and its champion Tony Benn - regarded by Mr Kinnock's supporters as a "clear liability to the new model Labour Party" - was seeking the Labour nomination for the Chesterfield by-election.
There are, however, a few committee sessions, including a promising looking session of the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee (10am) with Tony Benn, discussing the "path to codifying-or not codifying-the UK's constitution" alongside Professor Richard Gordon QC, and Frank Vibert.
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Nerds like me, who posses copies of The Benn Tapes, can hear an ancient, crackly recording of Tony Benn telling his local Labour activists in Bristol that if he resigned from the '70s Labour government in which he served, because he disagreed with its policies, the result would be a Conservative election victory and Mrs Thatcher in power...
Tony and Caroline Benn had been married for more than 50 years.
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