{"id":1022,"date":"2007-09-26T11:44:52","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T10:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/09\/26\/another-benn-branch\/"},"modified":"2007-09-26T11:44:52","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T10:44:52","slug":"another-benn-branch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/09\/26\/another-benn-branch\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Benn branch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/norfolkblogger.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/old-labour-nepotism-is-alive-and-well.html\">Via Norfolk Blogger<\/a> comes the news that Tony Benn&#8217;s granddaughter Emily <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/7011922.stm\">has been selected<\/a> by Labour to be their parliamentary candidate in East Worthing and Shoreham.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve noted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/03\/30\/217\/\">before<\/a>, my dad&#8217;s second cousin is married to Hilary Benn&#8217;s second cousin, so I guess I should add the latest political Benn to the diagram:<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/benntree2.gif' alt='Benn-Howells family tree' width=400 height=150 class=\"imgleft\" \/><br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll be relieved to hear that I, at least, have no plans to become a Labour MP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Norfolk Blogger comes the news that Tony Benn&#8217;s granddaughter Emily has been selected by Labour to be their parliamentary candidate in East Worthing and Shoreham. 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