VoteClimate: Tributes to Tony Benn - 20th March 2014

Tributes to Tony Benn - 20th March 2014

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Tributes to Tony Benn.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2014-03-20/debates/14032059000004/TributesToTonyBenn

11:19 John McDonnell (Labour)

It is interesting that he said we should invest in housing, health and education; give all young people the opportunity to stay on at school with an education maintenance allowance; and make sure that they had a guarantee of an apprenticeship or training and the opportunity to go to university, not by paying a fee but on a grant. That was his programme in 1982. It was prophetic and years in advance of its time. He said that what we needed to create the wealth was an industrial strategy—a manufacturing base based on new technology and skills. Actually, I remember him talking in one of his speeches about alternative energy sources, well in advance of the debate about climate change. The programme also included equal rights for women and for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

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