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Michael Mackintosh Foot (23 July 1913 - 3 March 2010) was a British (British people) Labour (Labour Party (UK)) politician and writer, who was a Member of Parliament from 1945 (UK general election, 1945) to 1955 (UK general election, 1955) and from a by-election in 1960 (Ebbw Vale by-election, 1960) until 1992 (UK general election, 1992). He was also the Leader of the Opposition (Leader of the Opposition (United Kingdom)) from 1980 to 1983 (UK general election, 1983).
Associated with the Labour left for most of his career, he was a passionate supporter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and British withdrawal from the European Economic Community. A passionate orator, he was Labour leader at the 1983 general election (United Kingdom general election, 1983) when the party received its lowest share of the vote since 1918.
His parallel career as a journalist included appointments as editor of Tribune (Tribune (magazine)), on several occasions, and the Evening Standard newspaper. Among the books he authored are Guilty Men (an attack on Neville Chamberlain and others for the policy of appeasement), a biography of Jonathan Swift (The Pen and the Sword, 1957) and Aneurin Bevan.
Honorific-prefix: The Right Honourable,
Birth Name: Michael Mackintosh Foot
Date of birth: 1913-07-23
Birth Location: Plymouth, Devon, England
Date of death: 2010-03-03
Death Location: Hampstead, London, England
Monarch: Elizabeth II (Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom)
Leader2: James Callaghan
Constituency Mp6: Plymouth Devonport (Plymouth Devonport (UK Parliament constituency))
Constituency Mp5: Ebbw Vale (Blaenau Gwent (UK Parliament constituency))
Party: Labour (Labour Party (UK))
Nationality: British (British people)
Alma Mater: Wadham College, Oxford
Spouse: Jill Craigie (m. 1949-1999)
Religion: None (atheist (Atheism))
Leader of the Opposition (Leader of the Opposition (United Kingdom))
In office: 4 November 1980-2 October 1983
Predceded by: James Callaghan
Succeeded by: Neil Kinnock
Primeminister: Margaret Thatcher
Deputy Leader of the Labour Party (Deputy Leader of the British Labour Party)
In office: 5 April 1976-4 November 1980
Predceded by: Edward Short (Edward Short, Baron Glenamara)
Succeeded by: Denis Healey
Lord President of the Council,Leader of the House of Commons
In office: 8 April 1976-4 May 1979
Predceded by: Edward Short (Edward Short, Baron Glenamara)
Succeeded by: Norman St John-Stevas (Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley) (Leader),Christopher Soames (Christopher Soames, Baron Soames),(Lord President)
Primeminister: James Callaghan
Secretary of State for Employment
In office: 5 March 1974-8 April 1976
Predceded by: William Whitelaw (William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw)
Succeeded by: Albert Booth
Primeminister: Harold Wilson
In office: 17 November 1960-9 April 1992
Predceded by: Aneurin Bevan
Succeeded by: Llew Smith
In office: 5 July 1945-26 May 1955
Predceded by: Leslie Hore-Belisha (Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha)
Succeeded by: Joan Vickers (Joan Vickers, Baroness Vickers)