Michael Foot, the role of ideology and the Labour leadership elections of 1976 and 1980

The orthodox interpretation of Michael Foot's election as Labour Party leader in 1980 is that it resulted from a left-wing surge within the broader Party throughout the 1970s. This thesis challenges this assumption. It does so by presenting a contextualised analysis of Foot, the Labour Party an...

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Main Author: Crines, Andrew
Other Authors: Evans, Brendan
Published: University of Huddersfield 2010
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.528769