1988 Labour Party leadership election (UK)
The 1988 Labour Party leadership election saw Tony Benn, identified with the left wing of the British Labour Party, challenge the incumbent leader Neil Kinnock identified with the more moderate social democratic wing.
Image: Start campagne voor Europese verkiezingen van Pvd A (Rotterdam) Neal Kinnoch , c, Bestanddeelnr 932 9812 (cropped)
Image: Tony Benn in 1992
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn, known between 1960 and 1963 as The 2nd Viscount Stansgate, was a British Labour Party politician who served as a Cabinet minister in the 1960s and 1970s. He was the Member of Parliament for Bristol South East and Chesterfield for 47 of the 51 years between 1950 and 2001. He later served as President of the Stop the War Coalition from 2001 to 2014.
Benn in 2006
Benn speaking at the Glastonbury Festival in 2008
Benn about to join the March 2005 anti-war demonstration in London
Tony Benn and Giles Fraser speaking at Levellers' Day, Burford, 17 May 2008