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# Tony Banks RIP
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2006/01/tony_banks_rip/
- Published: 2006-01-09T09:16:46.000Z
- Updated: 2019-01-07T17:04:05.000Z
- Description: The former MP Tony Banks has passed away. I met him once.
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: Doctor Who, photos, Politics, tony banks

So, fairly hard on the heels of the news that Tony Banks, the former MP not-widely-known-as Lord Stratford, had [had a stroke](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk%5Fpolitics/4591230.stm?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) comes the news that [he has died](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4591570.stm?ref=onemanandhisblog.com).

And that’s a shame. Like Robin Cook before him, he was a political animal whose political principles were more important to him that climbing up the Labour Party heirarchy. Like Cook, I didn’t agree with all his politics. But I did respect him, and had the chance to meet him, ever-so-briefly, when he spoke at a friend’s wedding. I was doing photography for the event, hence the pic above.

In fact, he was the last person I saw from the wedding on the day itself, and my wife and I ran into him and his wife on the Strand, both couple clutching a large Dr Who cookie jar, a gift from the happy couple for services rendered.

Rest in peace. Politics is poorer for your passing.