AHC: Make Tony Benn a prime minister

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Your challenge, with a reasonable POD at some point during his political career, is to make Tony Benn a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. You can change his political opinions - or at least how he presents them - but only to an extent. For instance, you can move him from the hard left to the soft left, or prevent his shift further to the left that he went on throughout his career. But you can't make him a neoconservative.

Have fun my dudes.
 
Your challenge, with a reasonable POD at some point during his political career, is to make Tony Benn a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. You can change his political opinions - or at least how he presents them - but only to an extent. For instance, you can move him from the hard left to the soft left, or prevent his shift further to the left that he went on throughout his career. But you can't make him a neoconservative.

Have fun my dudes.


Get him into the Leadership instead of Jim Callaghan?.
 

RyanF

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Perhaps Labour winning in 1970 would mean Benn's leftward swing in opposition wouldn't be so pronounced. Although it is possible that the myriad of problems of the early 1970s would also beset a Labour government, so that might be the greater catalyst.

His views on the EEC may also provide a path to the leadership, if a post-1970 Labour government were to have their nose bloodied trying to take the UK into the EEC (either from a veto or being rejected in a referendum) and Benn were seen to be on the anti-Europe side then he might stand a better chance in any leadership election after Wilson leaves.

Any way you try to work it out there are dozens of steps that he would have to take and even more things that would have to go right for him before he came close to challenging. Leader of the Opposition on the other hand would be easy enough.
 
Healey wins 1980, Benn goes ahead with his plan to challenge in 1981 after the introduction of the electoral college. Butterfly away the Falklands and you're more or less there.
 
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