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Former Labour leader Michael Foot dies

12:32pm Wednesday 3rd March 2010


MICHAEL Foot, ex-Blaenau Gwent MP and former leader of the Labour Party has died at the age of 96.

Mr Foot was first elected as an MP in 1945, but became a Gwent MP in 1960 for the seat of Ebbw Vale, which later became Blaenau Gwent.

He succeeded Jim Callaghan as Labour leader in 1980, and stood down after losing the 1983 election.

Justice Secretary Jack Straw told the House of Commons of the ex-Labour leader's death this morning.

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Welcome to wales, Abercwmbucket says...
6:54pm Wed 3 Mar 10

A sad day indeed. One of the last Labour senior politicians who actually believed in a cause rather than a career. Whether you were his political friend or foe you could respect the fact that he had principles and beliefs. Unlike the bunch of self serving, lying, plastic Labour goons we a lumbered with today. He must have been so sad about how his party turned out.

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scampy, cwmbran says...
2:59am Thu 4 Mar 10

Foot had something the present bunch of labour shop stewards,social workers and postmen don't have, it is called principle?
Kinnock, Blair, Brown completely without principle.

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TexasTaff, Kempner, USA says...
12:28am Sun 7 Mar 10

RIP Michael Foot... the best Prime Minister we never had...

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islwyn09, Abercarn says...
12:46pm Sun 7 Mar 10

Yes Michael Foot was so principled that he even sold his own constituents down the unemployment river to curry favour with his party bosses!By starting the rot @ Ebbw Vale steelworks he gave Thatcher & Mcgregor carte blanche to decimate the welsh steel industry & consign Bleanau Gwent to the industrial scrapheap which its never recovered from!Its easy to have priciples when you dont have to pay the price of having them!

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Gooda, pontypool says...
6:31pm Tue 9 Mar 10

Its a sad reflection of todays society that had Michael Foot been starting out in his political career today he would not have got very far. Why??? Because the media in paticular is only interested in how a person looks or presents himself. Michael Foot was a political legend. Amazingly bright, a visionary and a remarkable orator. Sadly thanks to how they tried to portray him he will mostly be remembered for the coat he wore to a public gathering.

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