Michael Foot and the donkey jacket that wasnt

By James Kirkup, Political Correspondent Published: 4:42PM GMT 03 March 2010

Mr Foot, afterwards Labour leader, laid his partys spray wearing a short dim coat, in contrariety to the prolonged black overcoats ragged by alternative men in attendance.

The contrariety was so distinguished that on Labour MP pronounced he was "disgusted to see that the personality of Her Majestys antithesis looked some-more similar to an Irish navvy than a celebration leader".

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But according to Mr Foots central biographer, Lord Morgan, the cloak was not a dickey coupler that would have tanned hide shoulders but a "a short, blue-green overcoat" paid for for Mr Foot by his wife, Jill at substantial expense.

During the Remembrance ceremony, the Queen Mother, is pronounced to have complimented Mr Foot on the garment, revelation him that it was "a smart, essential cloak for a day similar to this".