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Originally Posted by John Whitworth
The Labour Party's journal, Tribune, was funded directly from Moscow when Michael Foot was the editor.
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John,
My understanding is that this was an allegation made in 1995 by the Sunday Times and the News of the World, based largely on a book written by an ex British-Soviet double agent.
Foot issued writs for libel and the News of the World immediately settled out of court for £35,000. The Sunday Times contested and lost and ended up paying out £100,000+. To me this suggests that neither paper had any evidence that would stand up in court.
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1995 story in the Independent Newspaper]
I'm not saying that the libel settlement means it can't be true (as Jeffrey Archer's perjury shows, for example), but the allegation does seem far from proven.
best,
Matt