British Labourite Michael Foot dies

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This video from Britain says about itself:

Michael Foot speaks at anti-war rally in Hyde Park, London (February 15th 2003).

From British daily The Guardian:

Former Labour leader Michael Foot dies

Labour party leader between 1980 and 1983 dies aged 96

* Will Woodward

* Wednesday 3 March 2010 13.06 GMT

Michael Foot, Labour leader during one of the most tumultuous periods in the party’s history has died, it was announced today.

Foot led the party from 1980 to 1983, presiding over the party during the formation of the breakaway Social Democratic party. He quit after Labour slumped to a stunning defeat in the 1983 election. A distinguished writer and journalist, as well as a cabinet minister in the Wilson and Callaghan governments, he was an MP from 1945 to 1992.

Tony Benn, his cabinet colleague and occasional nemesis, said today: “He was one of the great figures of the Labour movement.”

Ken Livingstone said: “It’s amazing that somebody that nice got to the top of the Labour party but not surprising that he didn’t win the election.”

Foot was a founder of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and an editor of Tribune.

He was employment secretary in the second Wilson government and was allowed to campaign against its support for Britain staying in the European Economic Community in the 1975 referendum.

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