Crick's conference quizzes 2010

Pit your wits against Newsnight's Political editor, Michael Crick, in his conference season quizzes. This time: The Labour Party.

1.) Long service

Which MP has served on Labour's front bench for the last 30 years?

1. Tessa Jowell
   
2. Jack Straw
   
3. Alistair Darling
   

2.) A historical perspective

Which Labour MP used to edit History Today magazine?

1. Tristram Hunt
   
2. Gordon Marsden
   
3. Gordon Brown
   

3.) Iconic Liverpudlians

Which former Labour MP is commemorated with a statue, alongside comic Ken Dodd, on Liverpool Lime Street station?

1. Bessie Braddock
   
2. Eric Heffer
   

4.) Football focus

Which former Labour minister is now chairman of Celtic Football Club?

1. Brian Wilson
   
2. John Reid
   
3. Henry McLeish
   

5.) Drag and drop the missing word

"the * man in the House"

1. sharpest
   
2. stupidest
   
3. slowest
   

6.) A leading question

Who was John Smith's defeated opponent in the 1992 Labour leadership election?

1. John Prescott
   
2. Margaret Beckett
   
3. Bryan Gould
   

7.) Political veterans

Who is the oldest surviving former deputy leader of the Labour Party?

1. Roy Hattersley
   
2. Denis Healey
   
3. Ted Short
   

8.) Refugees from the Holocaust

Which post-war Labour home secretary who sat for South Shields, now David Miliband's seat, repeatedly rejected the immigration applications for the Miliband brothers' Polish-born Jewish grandfather, Sam?

1. Herbert Morrison
   
2. Chuter Ede
   
3. Frank Soskice
   

Answers

1. It is Jack Straw. First appointed to the Labour front bench in 1980 and elected to the shadow cabinet in 1987, he will end his three decades of front bench politics when he stands down in early October.
2. It is MP for Blackpool South Gordon Marsden who was formerly the editor of History Today. He joined the magazine in 1985 and worked there until 1997 when he was elected to the Commons.
3. It is Bessie Braddock who has been immortalised in bronze by sculptor Tom Murphy. Nicknamed 'Battling Bessie', Braddock was MP for Liverpool Exchange for 24 years and is remembered as one of the city's most legendary political figures.
4. It is lifelong Celtic supporter and former Cabinet minister, John Reid. He was announced as the club's chairman in 2007 and described the appointment as the next big thing to "pulling on the Hoops and scoring at Celtic Park".
5. The former prime minister once described David Winnick as the "stupidest man in the House" at the dispatch box. Winnick was first elected as MP for Croydon South in 1966 and has been the Walsall North MP since 1979.
6. It was Bryan Gould who Smith defeated in the 1992 leadership election to succeed Neil Kinnock. Gould subsequently resigned from John Smith's shadow cabinet in a dispute about Europe and left British politics.
7. It is 97-year-old Ted Short. He is also the second-oldest living former member of the House of Commons, after 98-year-old Conservative James Allason.
8. It was Chuter Ede, home secretary in the Atlee government, that refused David Miliband's grandfather permission to stay in Britain after World War II.

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