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Tony Benn, one of the most left-wing British politicians, comes from an extremely aristocratic background, for example (he had to renounce a peerage to be able to take his seat in Parliament).
One of the funnier examples that I know is that of Sir Cyril Black, right-wing Tory MP for Wimbledon, where I lived as a child, and my parents' MP though they didn't vote for him. Unusually for a British politician, he was very much a religious-right type, and among much else was a strong campaigner against all sorts of gambling. I just found out that his grandson Andrew Black was co-founder of the large internet bet exchange Betfair!
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