On 1st March 1984 just days before the start of the miners strike, Tony Benn won the Chesterfield By-Election. His majority over the LibDems was 6,264 votes. There were sixteen candidates as well as Benn including Screaming Lord Sutch (pictured)
Benn recorded in his Diary ‘The Sun had an article ‘Benn on the couch-a top psychiarists view of Britain’s leading leftie’ in which they said they had fed my personal and political details to a top ,psychiarist in America who had concluded that I was power mad, would do anything to satisfy my hunger, was prone to periods of fantasy and so on..’
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