Thomas, Elizabeth. “25th Anniversary: Elizabeth Thomas remembers Maureen and Brigid”. ALCS News, No. 21, p. 6.
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Michael Foot
Standard Name: Foot, Michael,, b. 1913
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Amber Reeves | The general feeling was that Wells had behaved like a cad. Michael Foot
, biographer of Wells, along with defending his subject, makes the important point that Reeves, a strong and independent character, was not... |
| Occupation | Maureen Duffy | Before the general election of May 1979, MD
and Brigid Brophy
offered a job at ALCS to Elizabeth Thomas
(advisor to Michael Foot
) in case Labour should lose. |
Timeline
March 1981
Breakaway Labour
members of parliament—Roy Jenkins
, Shirley Williams
(daughter of Vera Brittain
), David Owen
, and William Rodgers
—left the party to found the Social Democratic Party, or SDP
.
9 June 1983
Michael Foot
, leader of the Labour Party
, signally failed in the general election to shake the reign of Tory
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
. He was soon afterwards replaced as party leader by Welshman Neil Kinnock
.