The year after that came the vote for Brexit, one of Benn’s longstanding causes. He was certainly an unusually clear analyst and critic of the distribution of power in Britain. Benn’s solution to Britain’s inequalities and lack of political transparency was to give more power to the people. Norway did this, and has become one of the richest countries in the world; Benn’s idea was not adopted. Yet unlike today’s populists, or those on the right at least, Benn wanted a redistribution of power far beyond the political.