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  Michael Foot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The SDP won the support of large sections of the media, and for more than a year its opinion poll ratings suggested that it could at least overtake Labour and possibly win a general election.
Foot said later that it was "a perfectly good jacket", a dark green coat, which he wore over his fl suit (bought from Herbie Frogg in Jermyn Street), to keep himself warm on a cold November morning – and that the Queen Mother had praised him for his choice of garment.
The 1983 Labour manifesto, strongly socialist in tone, advocated unilateral nuclear disarmament, higher personal taxation and a return to a more interventionist industrial policy.
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 Michael Foot
Foot was not a natural leader, nor was he a good orator or political campaigner.
He was also hampered by his appearance (he was heavily criticised for appearing at an Armistice ceremony in a so-called "donkey jacket"), Foot struggled for political popularity.
His leadership was further destabilised by Benn's decision to conduct a campaign to challenge Healey for the deputy leadership through much of 1981.
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No doubt he had but so had billions of others and he seemed unable to bring to the experience the sense of specialness that is the mark of the poet.
In contrast to my green jacket and polo-necked sweater Holbrook wore a neat well-cut suit, a white shirt and what I assumed to be a Downing College tie.
I put on my new navy duffel coat and Trevor was wearing his old donkey jacket.
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