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
Cabinet of the United Kingdom
The Cabinet of the United Kingdom is the senior decision-making body of His Majesty's Government. A committee of the Privy Council, it is chaired by the Prime Minister and its members include Secretaries of State and other senior ministers. Members of the Cabinet are appointed by the Prime Minister and are by convention chosen from members of the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
Cabinet Room, 10 Downing Street
Cabinet Office, London
Prime Minister Boris Johnson chairing the first meeting of his Cabinet
The Cabinet table
