London (CNN) -- Tony Benn, who has died in London aged 88, was an inspiration to all of us who wanted to make the world a more peaceful and more equal place. He came from a privileged and political family, his father and grandfather both MPs, and he would have become Lord Stansgate in the early 1960s if he had not fought to renounce his hereditary peerage. Luckily he won, stayed an MP instead of mouldering in Britain's upper House of Lords for the next five decades, and dedicated his life to socialist ideas and most importantly to campaigning for change.
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Tony Benn who has died in London aged 88, came from a privileged and political family
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However he renounced his peerage, and fought for socialist ideas
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He was opposed to wars UK government and its U.S. allies were waging
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Benn was polite, disciplined, hard working, political: all a campaigner should be - Lindsey German
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