Polly Toynbee
Journalist, Organization leader
1946 –
Who is Polly Toynbee?
Mary Louisa Toynbee, known as Polly Toynbee is a British journalist and writer, and has been a columnist for The Guardian newspaper since 1998.
She is a social democrat and broadly supports the Labour Party, while urging it in many areas to be more left-wing. During the 2010 general election she called for tactical voting to keep out the Conservatives with the hope that this would lead to a Lab-Lib coalition supporting proportional representation. She was appointed President of the British Humanist Association in July 2007. In 2007 she was named 'Columnist of the Year' at the British Press Awards.
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- Born
- Dec 27, 1946
Isle of Wight - Also known as
- Mary Louisa Toynbee
- Parents
- Spouses
- Peter Jenkins
(1970 - 1992)
- Peter Jenkins
- Religion
- Atheism
- Ethnicity
- English people
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- University of Oxford
- St Anne's College, Oxford
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on July 23, 2013
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