LABOUR politician Tony Benn will be talking about his life at The Lights in Andover on 3 February.

Audiences can expect an evening of frank responses and entertaining political anecdotes as a sequel to his original theatre tour. Tony Benn was born in London in 1925 and retired from the House of Commons in May 2001 after a staggering 50 years in Parliament.

He was the longest serving Labour MP in the history of the political party which he joined back in 1942. He was a cabinet minister in Harold Wilson and Jim Callaghan’s governments from 1964-79 as Minister of Technology, Secretary of State for both Industrial and Energy as well as President of the Council of European Energy ministers in 1977.