Michael was perhaps Wales's most brilliant adopted son.
Never again will we see such soaring oratory, socialist passion and wit.
--Secretary of State for Wales Peter Hain, March 3, 2010
His is a dying breed. Our politicians have looked more and more like grey-suited purpose-built machines ever since Labour's image-makers forced Neil Kinnock to throw away his houndstooth suit.
--Francis Beckett, The Guardian, March 31, 2007
Michael Foot, who died March 3, 2010, at the age of 96, served as Ebbw Vale’s MP for thirty-two years. Foot was a grand old man of the British Labour party, an unreconstructed radical, one of the last of his kind. He was known equally for his erudition and his disheveled appearance, most notably the jacket he wore at the Remembrance Day ceremony in 1981. (Not all were opposed to his sartorial choice: the Queen Mother complimented him on choosing “a smart, sensible coat for a day like this.”)
