Funeral for ex-Labour leader Michael Foot
London: The funeral service for former Labour leader Michael Foot was being held in north London today.
A host of friends and senior politicians were expected to say farewell to the left-wing crusader and parliamentarian who died earlier this month, aged 96.
He led Labour to its heaviest defeat at the 1983 general election.
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