With the election of Jeremy Corbyn to the Labour leadership, the example of Michael Foot has been much remarked upon. As Frank MacDonagh pointed out on Twitter yesterday, Jeremy Corbyn is not Michael Foot. Corbyn has, until now, been nothing but an outsider, a maverick rebel. In his younger days, Michael Foot was a rebel, but by the time he was elected Labour leader, he was very much an insider, having been Minster of Employment, Leader of the House of Lords and Deputy Leader of the party. Indeed, Corbyn’s spiritual father, Tony Benn, was at that point in the process of reinventing himself as the people’s Tony, but had in fact been even more of an insider: Postmaster General, Minister of Technology, Minister of Industry and then Energy. In contrast, Corbyn has never held office of any sort. Furthermore, Foot was elected leader as the man it was hoped could…
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