A GREAT MAN DIED TODAY IN GREAT BRITAIN

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5. 'Margaret Thatcher once said Tony Blair

'Margaret Thatcher once said Tony Blair & New Labour were her greatest achievement, and she was right!'











Tributes poured in for one the country's most extraordinary and controversial MPs, who, in what he described as the blazing autumn of his career outside Westminster, came to be regarded as an anti-establishment voice for democracy.

Although he said self-deprecatingly in one of his later interviews: "All political careers end in failure; mine just happened to end earlier than most," many regarded his final decades outside Westminster with greatest affection.


He became known for his campaign against the invasion of Iraq, addressing the UK's biggest ever demonstration during the Stop the War rally of 2003.



http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/14/tony-benn-dies-aged-88-labour-politiican



John Bolton VS Tony Benn

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Tony Benn on the Iraq war (at 1m 12s