Dennis Skinner the former Labour MP is 94 today. He lost his seat at the 2019 Election but had been a long serving left-wing MP, starting his working life as a miner.
Tony Benn writing in his Diary on 28th September 1982:
absolutely incorruptible, you can’t even buy him a cup of tea. He’s in the House (of Commons from 2.30 to ten o’clock every night; he spends all his free weekends stomping around the country addressing Labour rallies and talking to strikers..
Compare and contrast to another ex-miner who is currently a Reform UK Ltd MP
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