03 March 2010

Michael Foot on Tony Blair

When Foot was leader of the Labour party, Tony Blair stood in the hopeless seat of Beaconsfield at a by-election.  Many years later when Blair himself was leader, Foot had this to say about the future Prime Minister:

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

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