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    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...
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  • Michael Foot (1913–2010) was a British politician and journalist. Michael Foot may also refer to: M. R. D. Foot (Michael Richard Daniell Foot, 1919–2012)...
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    Michael Richard Daniell Foot, CBE, TD (14 December 1919 – 18 February 2012) was a British political and military historian, and former British Army intelligence...
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  • had four brothers: Michael, a prominent figure in the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1980 to 1983; John (Lord Foot), a Liberal politician;...
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    Conservatives won power in the 1979 general election. After the party under Michael Foot suffered a landslide defeat to Margaret Thatcher in the 1983 election...
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    March and 5.5% in May. It was under these conditions that Callaghan beat Michael Foot in a vote to become Treasurer of the Labour Party. The economy was soon...
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  • left-wing activists in the local constituencies. The left was led by Michael Foot and Tony Benn. They were keen on radical proposals as presented in the...
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  • A memorial to Michael Foot is situated in Freedom Fields Park in Plymouth, Devon. Foot was born in Plymouth, and served as Member of Parliament for Plymouth...
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    Captain of Games (a senior boy) for being "bloody awful all round". Michael Foot later wrote that this was "the kind of comprehensive verdict which others...
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    leadership of the Labour Party in November 1980, but narrowly lost to Michael Foot. Foot immediately chose Healey as his Deputy Leader, but after the Labour...
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    Michael Foot was Leader of the Opposition from 4 November 1980, following his victory in the 1980 leadership election, to 2 October 1983, when he was replaced...
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    denied unemployment benefit. The Secretary of State for Employment, Michael Foot, commented: "A person who declines to fall in with new conditions of...
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  • brothers, Dingle, John and Michael, were all educated at Oxford and all became Presidents of the Oxford Union. Hugh Foot's career in the diplomatic service...
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  • grandson of Isaac Foot, who had been a Liberal MP. He was a nephew of Michael Foot, later leader of the Labour Party, with whom the younger Foot was close. He...
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  • was the left-winger Michael Foot who was viewed by many on the centre and right of the party as a divisive figure. Short defeated Foot and Anthony Crosland...
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  • Nations (1964–1970). His younger siblings were Margaret Elizabeth Foot (1911–1965), Michael Foot (1913–2010), a Labour MP, Cabinet Minister and Leader of the...
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  • coined to distinguish the mainstream left, represented by former leader Michael Foot, from the hard left, represented by Tony Benn. People belonging to the...
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    stood in the leadership election to succeed him, finishing third behind Michael Foot and the winner James Callaghan. He subsequently chose to resign from...
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    ISBN 1-898927-10-3 Pallis, Sam (3 March 2010). "Michael Foot: RIP". Newstatesman.com. Retrieved 5 September 2016. "The Michael Foot story". BBC News. 3 March 2010. Retrieved...
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  • of State for the Environment, Member of Parliament for Great Grimsby Michael Foot, Secretary of State for Employment, Member of Parliament for Ebbw Vale...
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    same issue later; and over unilateral disarmament in November 1980 when Michael Foot became Labour leader. He resigned from the Labour Party when it rejected...
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    late 1950s led by Aneurin Bevan which also included Richard Crossman, Michael Foot and Barbara Castle. Bevanism was opposed by the Gaitskellites, moderate...
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    leader and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, former Labour Party leader Michael Foot, former SDP leader David Owen, three former Chancellors of the Exchequer...
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    was presided over by Donald Soper. Jennie Lee explained in a letter to Michael Foot, who would be elected to Bevan's seat in the by-election that ensued...
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    1983 United Kingdom general election (category Michael Foot)
    were part of the National Government). The Labour Party had been led by Michael Foot since the resignation of former Prime Minister James Callaghan as Leader...
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    elevated to the House of Lords, despite never being prime minister, and Michael Foot declined a similar offer. Politics portal United Kingdom portal Socialism...
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  • the establishment of the National Health Service, former Labour leader Michael Foot, and writer George Orwell, who served as Literary Editor. From 2008 it...
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  • country several times. Its executive included the future Labour leader Michael Foot and the MP for Ipswich and prominent war critic Richard Stokes. The group...
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    The Golden Foot award is an international football award, given to players who stand out for their athletic achievements (both as individuals and team...
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    Priestley, Ritchie Calder, journalist James Cameron, Howard Davies, Michael Foot, Arthur Goss, and Joseph Rotblat. The Campaign was launched at a public...
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