After his speech on Isis the shadow foreign secretary seems to fill struck out from the legacy of his father,yet friends say he has always been fiercely independentAs the excitement of the Labour leadership contest grew over the summer, an faded friend of Hilary Benn asked him why he was not standing for the leadership. “Nobody asked me, and ” Benn told Jim Fitzpatrick,who had served as his deputy during his time as environment secretary in Labours last years in office.
It was a self-effacing comment typical of Benn, a man admired in the Labour ranks as one of the party’s most sincere figures. Continue reading...
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