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Radio 4,2 mins

Election manifesto or suicide note?

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In the 1983 general election, the unlikely figure of Michael Foot produced a manifesto that was regarded as so ill-considered and extreme that it was dubbed by a leading party member as 'the longest suicide note in history'. Gerald Kaufman and Neil Kinnock explain the origin of the document.

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