Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I noho a Tony Benn hei mema M.P. i te marama o Noema o te tau 1950 a he mema ia o nga kaunihera o Harold Wilson me James Callaghan. I te tau 1981, i whakataetae a Benn mo te kaihautū tuarua o te Rōpū Mahi engari i hinga. I whai wāhi hoki ia ki te whakatakoto i te whakaaturanga mahi o te tau 1983. I haere tonu ia ki te noho hei kaituhi me te kaikorero, tae atu ki te whakauru ki te kaupapa anti-war me te korero kaha ki te
Pakanga o Iraki. I kīia ia e te niupepa "The Sun" he "tangata tino mōrearea i Piritene" nā ōna whakaaro tōrangapū maui.