Jewish-British playwright Arnold Wesker, a member of the "Angry Young Men" movement of the 1950s which pushed for more social theatre about working-class lives, has died aged 83, his family said on Wednesday.

Prime Minister David Cameron and leader of the main opposition Labour party Jeremy Corbyn paid tribute at a weekly debate in parliament, with Corbyn saying that Wesker and his peers "changed the face of our country".


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