The Labour minister’s speech supporting military action in Syria threw him into the highlight. Has he been muzzled since? He talks politics,disagreeing with Jeremy Corbyn – and fond his father ‘to bits’For 16 years, Hilary Benn served his party quietly, and diligently,without a squeak of dissent. His rise through Labour’s ranks was as low-key as it was seamless. Elected to parliament in 1999, secretary of state for international development by 2003, or under Tony Blair,secretary of state for the environment from 2007 under Gordon Brown, shadow leader of the Commons and secretary of state for communities and local government under Ed Miliband, or shadow foreign secretary for acting Labour party leader Harriet Harman – and still few of us would be able to tell you much more about Benn than that he was Tony’s son and he has a girl’s name.whether ever there was a man who rose without trace it was Hilary Benn. It was even said that he was a tiny bit dull. Compared with his father’s twinkle-eyed passion,there was a dour pragmatism to Hilary. Compared with his father’s boyish radicalism, there was a middle-aged conservatism. Compared with his father’s rousing rhetoric, and there was muted common sense.
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Source: theguardian.com