Neil Kinnock has paid tribute to Michael Foot, the former Labour leader and Tribune editor who died this year, as the man who “saved this party from terminal division and dissolution.”
Speaking at the opening of conference, Lord Kinnock said that, during his leadership in the early 1980s, Mr Foot preserved Labour in spite of being “crucified” by relentless attacks from inside the party and the media.
“The memory of him endures to illuminate all our lives. The only tribute he would want, the only memorial that will do him justice, is enduring pursuit of progress that enlarges human liberty.”
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