Michael Foot, a bookish intellectual and anti-nuclear campaigner who led Britain’s Labor Party to a disastrous defeat in 1983, died Wednesday, officials said. He was 96. Foot died peacefully at ...

With these words from his great hero Jonathan Swift, Michael Foot, icon of the Labour Left, revealed that his wife Jill Craigie was not the only woman to share his life A year after his wife died ...

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 ...

He wasn’t slick, he didn’t do spin, and he could have used Wurzel Gummidge as a body double – but every politician in the land could learn invaluable lessons from the life of Michael Foot.

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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 Margaret ...

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LONDON — Michael Foot, 96, a bookish intellectual and anti-nuclear campaigner who led Britain’s Labour Party to a disastrous defeat in 1983, died this morning, officials said. Foot died at his ...

The political world was united in tribute to former Labour Party leader Michael Foot following his death yesterday at 96. The veteran Left-winger, who led Labour to defeat in 1983, died at his ...

Michael Foot, the former Labour leader who died today aged 96, spent the latter part of his political career vainly attempting to unite a party which, during his many years as a backbench MP ...

Many of the Britons mourning Michael Foot, who died March 3 at 96, did not vote Labour when he led the party. Some had not yet reached voting age when he (right, with his wife, the author and ...

Michael Foot was the leader who led the Labour Party into the 1983 election defeat. It was a complete disaster, and as a consequence he has become synonymous with this failure to secure power.