In 1983 Michael Foot led Labour into a general election with a manifesto dubbed "the longest suicide note in history". One proposal, to nationalise banks, seems rather prescient
The New Statesman carries an interview with the veteran polititian who is the oldest lived leader of a political party,he is 95 this year.
Someone who was always admired from afar as a great political leader but who was pilloried by the press.
Reading is what matters most to Michael Foot. He is blind in one eye and must hold books very close to his one good eye, yet he remains, as he has always been, surrounded by teetering piles of books on his kitchen table. He has reached a great age, but none of his spirit and optimism has disappeared. His great passions are undimmed - for Byron, the Labour Party, Plymouth Argyle. For many, Foot is the greatest living Englishman. No one could dispute that he has walked and talked with the great.
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