Steven Fielding

Does the fate of Foot’s Labour show what could happen to the Tories?

Ex-Labour party leader Michael Foot in 2003 (Getty)
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Steven Fielding
Steven Fielding is Emeritus Professor of Political History at the University of Nottingham. He is currently writing a history of the Labour party since 1976 for Polity Press.

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