Category: WILSON of RIEVAULX, Harold, Lord, KG (late Labour PM)
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My position on Grammar Schools
22nd February 2016Below is the full text of my speech at the meeting of Full Council on 11th February 2016 on the Grammar Schools motion: Almost everyone but the most ardent Left-wingers generally acknowledge there have been problems with our comprehensive education system – they just haven’t been able, historically, to agree on a way to combat…
- ADONIS, Andrew, Lord (Labour peer)
- Billericay School
- BLAIR, Rt Hon Tony (fmr. Labour PM)
- CROSLAND, Rt Hon Anthony (late Labour MP)
- GOVE, Rt Hon Michael, MP (Con, Surrey Heath)
- Government
- Grammar Schools
- Labour Party
- London School of Economics
- Southend High School for Boys
- WILSON of RIEVAULX, Harold, Lord, KG (late Labour PM)
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Tony Benn 1925-2014
15th March 2014It is difficult to sum up the emotions I feel at the death of Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn – better known as Tony Benn. He was unquestionably one of the great political iconoclasts of XX-Century British politics – a man of firm conviction and probably one of the Left’s most erudite and sympathetic advocates. No…
- 'APPLEBY, Sir Humphrey' (fictional character)
- BENN, Flt Lt the Hon Michael, DFC
- BENN, Hon Emily (fmr Labour cllr in Croydon)
- BENN, Rt Hon Hilary, MP (Lab, Leeds Central)
- BENN, Rt Hon Tony (late Labour MP)
- BENN, Sir John, Bt (late Liberal MP)
- CHURCHILL, Rt Hon Sir Winston, KG &c (late Tory PM)
- CRIPPS, Rt Hon Sir Stafford (late Labour MP)
- FOOT, Rt Hon Michael, FRSL (late Labour MP)
- GANDHI, Mahatma
- HOLMES, Daniel
- KINNOCK, Neil, Lord (Labour peer)
- Labour Party
- LLOYD-GEORGE of DWYFOR, David, 1st Earl (late Liberal PM)
- Lords, House of
- MacDONALD, Rt Hon Ramsay (late Labour PM)
- SAYEED, Jonathan (fmr. Tory MP)
- ST CLAIR, Lt-Col Malcolm (late Tory MP)
- STANSGATE, Stephen, 3rd Viscount
- STANSGATE, William, 1st Viscount (William Wedgwood Benn) (late Labour peer)
- THATCHER, Margaret, Baroness, LG OM (late Tory PM)
- VARLEY, Eric, Lord (late Labour peer)
- WIDDECOMBE, Rt Hon Ann (fmr. Tory MP)
- WILSON of RIEVAULX, Harold, Lord, KG (late Labour PM)