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A wayward daughter of the English aristocracy, Baillie committed herself to left-wing politics after gaining a degree in Literature at Cambridge, first joining Labour and later the Communist Party in the early 1980s.

He is fiercely proud of his family, his working class Glasgow roots and his left-wing politics.

His support of the Welsh language while studying at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, did not sway him towards left-wing politics. Anyone prepared to stand for the Conservatives in Abertillery (1974) and Bradford (1979) could comfortably fight losing battles.

He said: "Blair was religious but he was already into left-wing politics and was obviously very ambitious."

Mr Bloxsome said Freeman's liberalism fits Newport's tradition for left-wing politics.

It did not take long before the young livewire took an active interest in left-wing politics - an interest which later led to donations to the Labour Party and accusations of cronyism when he was given the top job at the BBC.

A Scottish trade unionist who was totally immersed in left-wing politics, a little shabby but wonderfully articulate, funny, the life-blood of the party - and a voice of honest dissent.

Instead he is stupidly playing at left-wing politics to try and keep people in the urban (and Labour-supporting) areas happy.

After all, the firebrand Socialist leader is as famous for his addiction to tanning salons as he is for his left-wing politics.

He asked, ``What would MI5 want with someone like me, a journalist who printed extracts from Spycatcher when I was at college, someone who had been active on the fringe of left-wing politics?''

This is not the only area where Benioff has mixed his left-wing politics with his business.

"The people of Venezuela can freely decide whether they want to follow the road of the revolution, left-wing politics, progress, or whether they want to follow the path of neoliberalism and imperialism," the foreign minister offered.

And while there's a tradition of radical left-wing politics in the music industry, there have also been a few right-wingers.

By paying lip-service to the ideas vocalised by ideologues from Maudoodi to Khadim Rizvi, the ruling elite has shored up its own support within the public, used it as a tool in factional conflict (such as displacing a less preferred government or fighting left-wing politics), and disarmed hard-liners from their monopoly over ideology.