• in the recent UK election Nick Smith regained Blaenau Gwent for Labour, keeping a promise to the late Michael Foot?

Facts on topics related to Michael Foot

Harold Wilson

• the UK National Industrial Relations Court was controversial throughout its short life from 1971 to 1974, and was abolished soon after the Labour government of Harold Wilson came to power?

Clement Attlee

• British Conservative MP Richard Hornby unsuccessfully challenged former Prime Minister and Labour leader Clement Attlee before securing a safe seat?

Labour Party (UK)

• 17-year-old Emily Benn, granddaughter of veteran politician Tony Benn, is the youngest ever Labour Party parliamentary candidate, and would, if elected, become the youngest British MP since the Reform Act 1832?
• British Conservative MP Richard Hornby unsuccessfully challenged former Prime Minister and Labour leader Clement Attlee before securing a safe seat?
• Labour Party politician Hugh Brown was a British negotiator with Iceland during the third Cod War in the 1970s?
• Labour Member of Parliament Ellen Wilkinson organised the 1936 Jarrow March of 200 unemployed men and women from Tyneside to London to demand jobs?
  
• Labour's Alfred Dobbs was the shortest-serving post-war British Member of Parliament – just one day, before his death in 1945?
• Scottish National Party politician Douglas Henderson was instrumental in passing the censure motion that led to the downfall of James Callaghan's Labour government in 1979, but narrowly lost his own seat in the ensuing general election?
• British Labour Party MP Roland Boyes continued in office after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1995, but his condition had deteriorated so much that, upon his retirement in 1997, he was unaware that his party had gained control after 18 years in opposition?
• British Labour Party Member of Parliament Martin Flannery was a Communist until the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was crushed by the Soviet Union, but remained on the far left?
• British Labour Party politician Lena Jeger, Baroness Jeger was the oldest female former member of the British House of Commons at the time of her death?
• British Labour MP Harry Ewing was joint chairman of the Scottish Constitutional Convention, formed in 1989 to plan for the devolution of Scotland?

James Callaghan

• Scottish National Party politician Douglas Henderson was instrumental in passing the censure motion that led to the downfall of James Callaghan's Labour government in 1979, but narrowly lost his own seat in the ensuing general election?

Gordon Brown

• Douglas Henshall and Daniel Craig were originally considered for the roles of Gordon Brown and Tony Blair in 2003 film The Deal?
• Gordon Brown's independent advisor on ministerial conduct, Sir Philip Mawer who was given a knighthood in 2002, has also been a dame?
• actor David Morrissey gained 2 stone (28 lb; 13 kg) for his role as Gordon Brown in the 2003 film The Deal?
• the Laura Spence Affair was a major UK political row started over comments made by British Chancellor Gordon Brown accusing Oxford University of elitism?
• two Irish singers described as "tone deaf", and as "not very good" by British prime minister Gordon Brown, have been recently cited as more popular than The Beatles?