Which UK MP was this?
See if you can guess which UK MP this is. Guesses welcome in the comments.
- Was a professor at age 25, proficient in 14 languages including Urdu
- Was good friends with Tony Benn and Michael Foot
- Decried the deaths of Kenyan prisoners in a British POW camp saying African lives are worth just as much as European lives
- Labour MP Dennis Healey called the speech on the Kenyan prisoners the greatest parliamentary speech he ever heard
- Refused a ministerial post due to the what he saw as the new Prime Minister’s backwards views on Africa
- Supported legalising homosexuality
- Supported abolishing the death penalty
- A vocal opponent of the Vietnam War
- Vehemently anti-american and decided American imperialism
- Won the BBC Man of the Year poll twice