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Tony Benn, former MP and cabinet minister of the Labour Party died in March 2014 at the age of 88, two years after suffering a debilitating stroke that kept him in hospital for almost a year.

In the almost three years since his death we have seen the ascendency of the left wing of the Labour Party (many of whom would have identified as Bennites before the rise of Jeremy Corbyn) and a lot of sectional fighting within the Party since then.

How might Benn, still alive and able to make public appearances, have effected the internal politics of the Labour Party since 2014? Should Jeremy Corbyn still rise to the leadership and appoint, then sack, Benn's son Hilary as Shadow Foreign Secretary would the elder Benn have made any comments?

Also, would Benn have campaigned for the UK to leave the EU in the referendum last year as he did in the 1970s, and may more Labour left wingers have joined him?
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