Michael Foot
Michael Mackintosh Foot FRSL (1913 - 2010) was an English Labour Party politician who served as British Labour Leader 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 Adolf Hitler, Guilty Men, under a pseudonym.
Foot served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1945 to 1955 and again from 1960 until he retired in 1992. A passionate orator, and associated with the left wing of the Labour Party for most of his career, Foot was an ardent supporter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and of British withdrawal from the European Economic Community (EEC). He was appointed to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Employment under Harold Wilson in 1974, and he later served as Leader of the House of Commons (1976–1979) under James Callaghan. He was also Deputy Leader of the Labour Party under Callaghan from 1976 to 1980.
Elected as a compromise candidate, Foot served as the Leader of the Labour Party…more
Foot served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1945 to 1955 and again from 1960 until he retired in 1992. A passionate orator, and associated with the left wing of the Labour Party for most of his career, Foot was an ardent supporter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and of British withdrawal from the European Economic Community (EEC). He was appointed to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Employment under Harold Wilson in 1974, and he later served as Leader of the House of Commons (1976–1979) under James Callaghan. He was also Deputy Leader of the Labour Party under Callaghan from 1976 to 1980.
Elected as a compromise candidate, Foot served as the Leader of the Labour Party…more
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Nye: The Political Life of Aneurin Bevan
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2014
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Michael Foot: A Life
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2007
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A Life at the Centre
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1991
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A History of the British Labour Party
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1997
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Clement Attlee: The Inevitable Prime Minister
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2014
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Office Without Power: Diaries, 1968-1972
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1989
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Michael Foot
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1995
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Nye Bevan and the Mirage of British Socialism
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1987
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The Backbench Diaries of Richard Crossman
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1981
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Choosing the Labour Leader: Labour Party Leadership Elections from Wilson to Brown
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2010
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