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3 March 2010

Foot’s finest hour

The former Labour leader's courageous stand against appeasement.

By George Eaton

In addition to being a great parliamentarian, Michael Foot was a brilliant essayist and polemicist. I first discovered his writing in the form of his book Guilty Men, a coruscating attack on the pro-appeasement faction of the Tory party.

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