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He was without any rival whatever, the first comic genius who ever installed himself in Downing Street

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A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg

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We had not the armour, the strength, the quickness in manoeuvre, yes, the leadership

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It is not necessary that every time he rises he should give his famous imitation of a semi-house-trained polecat.

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Is the Labour Party to remain a democratic party in which the right of free criticism and free debate is not merely tolerated but encouraged? Or are the rank and file of the party to be bludgeoned or cowed into an uncritical subservience towards the leadership?

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Michael Foot
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Born: July 23, 1913
Died: March 3, 2010 (aged 96)
Bio: Michael Mackintosh Foot was a British Labour Party politician and man of letters who was a Member of Parliament from 1945 to 1955 and from 1960 until 1992.
Known for:
  1. Debts of honour (1980)
  2. Loyalists and loners (1986)
  3. Dr Strangelove, I presume (1999)
  4. Isaac Foot (2006)
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