Tony Benn on Labour defections

Title

Tony Benn on Labour defections

Genre

Speech

TX Date

2 Jul 1981

Year of production

1981

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Duration

00:01:37

Description

Labour MP Tony Benn gives a speech about the people that have defected from the Labour Party (listing those over the years) and how their departures failed to cause a split. In context of current defections to new SDP.

Contributors

Tony Benn

Keywords

Politics; Labour Party; Political parties; Political allegiance; Party politics; SDP; Politicians; Political coalitions; Cabinet ministers; Political crises

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