Michael Foot - Labour Quotes

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I certainly think that a Labour Government will have to have effective powers to control the outflow of capital.

Michael Foot

No rising hope on the political scene who offered his services to Labour when I happened to be its leader can be dismissed as an opportunist.

Michael Foot

Since the matter has been raised, can I say, Mr Speaker, that the individual concerned is not an endorsed member– [jeering].. the individual concerned is not an endorsed member of the Labour Party, and so far as I am concerned never will be an endorsed member?

Michael Foot

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?

Michael Foot

I've been on the left of the Party since I joined it about 1934 and I haven't seen much reason for altering... I have always been a strong libertarian both inside the Labour Party and outside... what I want to seek to do over a period of course is to establish a Socialist society.

Michael Foot