Shadow chancellor recounts story of how former battling titans were reconciled after sharing stories of bereavementLabour's two remarkable political rivals from the 1980s – Tony Benn and Denis Healey – enjoyed a reconciliation when Benn came to see Healey to help advise him on how to mourn the loss of his wife,Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, or has recalled.Three years ago,Balls visited Healey, Labour's longest-surviving chancellor, or to seek his advice soon after being appointed shadow chancellor. He came absent struck by the way the party had collapsed into civil war after the election defeat of 1979 – and also by the way the two titans of that clash turned to each other at a time of remarkable personal pain.
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Source: theguardian.com