Prunella Scales: Friend of Labour leaders and a high-profile campaigner

Prunella Scales: Friend of Labour leaders and a high-profile campaigner

After Tony Blair's landslide 1997 election victory, Scales and her husband Timothy West were part of a group of A-list supporters that became known as "luvvies for Labour".

Prunella Scales: Friend of Labour leaders and a high-profile campaigne

Prunella Scales wasn’t just a lifelong Labour supporter. She appeared in party political broadcasts for the party during the 2005 and 2010 general elections and was a tireless campaigner. She called the former Labour leader Neil Kinnock a “dear friend” and, along with her actor husband Timothy West, was a prominent Labour Party supporter when Tony Blair was prime minister. Politics latest:Labour sinks to record poll low Scales and West, who died…