Polly Toynbee Bio, Age, Net Worth, Husband, Books, Independent, Corbyn

Polly Toynbee Biography

Polly Toynbee (Mary Louisa “Polly” Toynbee) is a British journalist and writer. Since 1998, she has been a columnist for The Guardian newspaper. She is a social democrat and was a candidate for the Social Democratic Party in the 1983 general election. She now broadly supports the Labour Party, although she has been critical of its current left-wing leader, Jeremy Corbyn.

Before joining the Guardian, she worked as a social affairs editor for the BBC and also for The Independent newspaper. She is vice-president of Humanists UK. Previously she served as its president between 2007 and 2012. In 2007, she was named the Columnist of the Year at the 2007 British Press Awards.

Polly Toynbee attended Holland Park School, a state comprehensive school in London. She later obtained a scholarship to read history at St Anne’s College, Oxford. Eighteen months into her studies, she dropped out. During her gap year, in 1966, she worked for Amnesty International in Rhodesia. She was later expelled by the government.

She published her first novel, Leftovers, in 1966. Following her expulsion from Rhodesia, Toynbee revealed the existence of the “Harry” letters, which detailed the alleged funding of Amnesty International by the British government. After her studies in Oxford, she found work in a factory and a burger bar.

She hoped to write in her spare time. Her hopes were killed by the tiresome work in the industries. She got into journalism, working on the diary at The Observer. She turned her eight months of experience in manual work into the book A Working Life in 1970.

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Polly Toynbee worked for many years at The Guardian before joining the BBC where she was social affairs editor (1988–1995). She also worked as a columnist and associate editor at The Independent. She worked with the then editor Andrew Marr. She later rejoined The Guardian.

She has also written for The Observer and the Radio Times; at one time she edited the Washington Monthly USA. Currently she serves as President of the Social Policy Association. She is also the chair of the Brighton Festival and deputy treasurer of the Fabian Society.

Polly Toynbee Age

Polly Toynbee was born in Yafford, Isle of Wight, England, United Kingdom. She was born on 27th December 1946. Her current age is 72 years old as of 2018.

Polly Toynbee Net Worth

Polly Toynbee has made a huge net worth from her career as a journalist. She is also a writer. She has written a number of books and that brings her a good amount of cash. Her net worth is however currently under review. It is approximated that she could be having a net worth that runs into millions.

Polly Toynbee Husband | Peter Jenkins Polly Toynbee

Polly Toynbee is currently married to her husband David Walker. The couple got married in 1992. Before then, she was married to Peter Jenkins. They got married in 1970 but later divorced in 1992.

Polly Toynbee Books

• Leftovers: A Novel (1966)
• A Working Life (1971)
• Hospital (1977)
• Way We Live Now (1981)
• Lost Children: Story of Adopted Children Searching for Their Mothers (1985)
• Hard Work: Life in Low-Pay Britain (2003)
• Better or Worse?: Has Labour Delivered? (2005)
• Unjust Rewards: Exposing Greed and Inequality in Britain Today (with David Walker, 2008)
• Cameron’s Coup (with David Walker, 2015)

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Polly Toynbee Corbyn | Polly Toynbee Independent Group

Polly Toynbee strongly supports Labour Party. She has however been critical of its current left-wing leader, Jeremy Corbyn.

The great Brexit crisis slices through both parties, dividing families, friends, neighbours and colleagues. It may yet break apart the moribund political system. But that seismic rupture didn’t happen today when seven MPs walked out of the Labour party.

Seven is a pitifully small number. The timing is monstrously badly judged and the reasons the MPs give are oddly scattergun, lacking political punch and focus. To be sure, they are not alone in thinking Jeremy Corbyn a weak leader with many failings: his poll ratings show most of the country agrees, as did the 172 Labour MPs who voted no confidence in him two and half years ago, as his “kinder gentler politics” turned poisonous.

But whether born of despair or vanity, this walkout is a damaging distraction, because right here, right now, there is only one cause that matters – Brexit. That’s not one issue among many, it is the great question that has the nation’s future hanging by a thread. It is the debate that contains within it all the other arguments about Britain’s ideals, identities, ideologies and insanities.

If Corbyn makes Labour complicit in this historic Tory catastrophe, then expect all hell to break loose in the party
Those other MPs who tried to oust Corbyn still think much the same of him now as they did then. But they have not quit, not at this catastrophically inappropriate juncture, diverting attention from the supreme task of this generation of politicians.

The best of them, such as Peter Kyle and Yvette Cooper, are stuck deep into battle to rescue us from calamity: Labour will again back Cooper’s amendment next week to prevent a no-deal crash-out and delay withdrawal. Some of those 35 Labour MPs who failed to back it last time are being brought round, giving it a good chance of success.

It does of course madden many Labour MPs that foot-dragging Corbyn has been almost absent from the fight against this Tory Brexit disaster. With him surrounded, if not held captive, by a cabal of Len McCluskey’s people, you only had to listen to the Unite leader’s infuriating pro-Brexit views on the Peston show last week to suspect he spoke the Labour leader’s mind too. Their views are deep-frozen in the 1970s. But what matters is less what Corbyn privately thinks than what he does when it comes to crunch Brexit votes – and so far, there has been no misstep.

Labour MPs walking away at this point only give succour to those Labour pro-Brexiters,such as Caroline Flint, who caricature those in favour of reversing Brexit as members of “metropolitan elites”. Paradoxically, their defection hardened the resolve of scores of Labour MPs to stay, those who in the past considered splitting.

They are the ones most angry at the defectors, accusing them of failing to work hard enough in their constituencies, failing to build around themselves loyal teams to fight off marauders. The one who has their sympathy is Luciana Berger, bombarded with antisemitic abuse and forced to fight off deselection when about to give birth.

SOURCE: www.theguardian.com