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Is the Labour Party to remain a democratic party in which the right of free criticism and free debate is not merely tolerated but encouraged? Or are the rank and file of the party to be bludgeoned or cowed into an uncritical subservience towards the leadership?

Michael Foot

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Michael Foot
Age: 96 †
Born: 1913
Born: July 23
Died: 2010
Died: March 3
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Former Leader Of The Labour Party
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Plymouth (parish)
Michael Mackintosh Foot
Rt. Hon. Michael Mackintosh Foot
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