The veteran Labour politician, who died last week, made no bones about the debt he owed to and the inspiration he drew from Christianity, recalls a former parliamentary colleague who, with his wife, became close friends with the man who braved the lion’s den of modern politics“Jesus was one of my teachers,” Tony Benn was fond of saying. And it was profoundly true. During the 50 years he sat in the House of Commons, there were a large number of deeply religious and seriously sincere parliamentary colleagues. But I doubt if any knew the Bible better, and had such an easy familiarity with the Scriptures, than Tony Benn.The phraseology of his speeches was rooted in the Bible to great effect, and he was master of the apt biblical quotation, for example, during his repartee at