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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Michael_FootMichael Foot - Wikipedia

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   Michael Foot (1913-2010) was a British politician and journalist who led the Labour Party from 1980 to 1983. He was a left-wing MP, a supporter of CND and EEC withdrawal, and the author of Guilty Men.

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3. www.britannica.com › biography › Michael-FootMichael Foot | Labour Party Leader, Leader of Opposition

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   Michael Foot was a British politician and journalist who led the Labour Party from 1980 to 1983. He was a left-wing socialist, a nuclear disarmament advocate, and a biographer of Aneurin Bevan.

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4. news.bbc.co.uk › 2 › hiBBC News - The Michael Foot story

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   Mar 3, 2010 · A biography of Michael Foot, the former Labour leader who took his party to its worst electoral defeat in 50 years. Learn about his political career, his views, his controversies and his legacy.

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6. tribunemag.co.uk › 2021 › 07The Life and Legacy of Michael Foot - Tribune

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   Jul 23, 2021 · Michael Foot was a left-wing intellectual who became Labour leader in 1980, despite his reluctance and the opposition of the establishment. He was a passionate socialist, a loyal party man, and a principled opponent of nuclear weapons and Thatcherism.

7. news.bbc.co.uk › 2 › hiMichael Foot: What did the 'longest suicide note' say?

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   Mar 4, 2010 · How did the Labour leader's "longest suicide note" shape today's politics? The article compares his proposals on nuclear disarmament, Europe, banks, minimum wage and foxhunting with current issues.

8. www.ft.com › content › c27e7b97-0a5e-3068-8863-dea4cMichael Foot has died - Financial Times

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   Mar 3, 2010 · Jack Straw has just told the House of Commons that the former Labour leader has died at the age of 96. Foot, born in 1913, was leader of the party from 1980s to 1983. Under his authority Labour...

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   Who was Michael Foot?

   • Michael Foot was one of the great political orators, for more than half his life a political rebel and a thorn in the flesh of the establishment. But he became a loyal and determined cabinet minister and, finally, Labour leader, although he took his party to its worst electoral defeat in 50 years.

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   Who was Michael Mackintosh Foot?

   • Michael Mackintosh Foot FRSL (23 July 1913 – 3 March 2010) was a British politician who was Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1980 to 1983. Foot began his career as a journalist on Tribune and the Evening Standard. He co-wrote the 1940 polemic against appeasement of Hitler, Guilty Men, under a pseudonym.

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   Did Michael Foot overcorrect New Labour?

   • He introduced a far slicker political operation, enlisting Peter Mandelson and others to change the party’s image for a new time. There is a real risk, though, that Kinnock and his successors in New Labour overcorrected. When Michael Foot was elected leader, Tony Benn said Foot ‘will put new heart into the party’.

   The Life and Legacy of Michael Foot - Tribune

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   Was Michael Foot a real British radical?

   • “Michael Foot was a genuine British radical,” Gordon Brown, the British prime minister, said in a lengthy tribute released Wednesday. “He possessed a powerful sense of community, a pride in our progressive past and faith in our country’s potential for a radical future.”

   Michael Foot Dies at 96; Led Britain’s Labour Party - The New York Times

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10. www.nytimes.com › 2010/03/04 › worldMichael Foot, British Party Leader Who Sought to Unite Labour ...

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    Mar 4, 2010 · Michael Foot, who led the British Labour Party in the early 1980s, and, after failing to broker a peace between its left and right wings, presided over its crushing defeat at the hands of...