Editing Michael Foot (section)

== Personal life ==

Foot was married to the film-maker, author and feminist historian [[Jill Craigie]] (1911–1999) from 1949 until her death fifty years later. He had no children.<ref name="Telegraph obit"/>

In February 2007, it was revealed that Foot had an [[extramarital]] [[affair]] with a woman around [[age disparity in sexual relationships|35 years his junior]] in the early 1970s. The affair, which lasted nearly a year, put a considerable strain on his marriage. The affair is detailed in Foot's official biography, published in March 2007.<ref name="Brooks" />

On 23 July 2006, his 93rd birthday, Michael Foot became the longest-lived leader of a major British political party, passing [[Lord Callaghan]]'s record of 92 years, 364 days.

A staunch [[Republicanism in the United Kingdom|republican]] (though well liked by the [[British royal family|Royal Family]] on a personal level),<ref name="Brooks">{{cite news| url = http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article1434627.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070227130330/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article1434627.ece |archive-date=27 February 2007 | title = Michael Foot had a young black mistress | last = Brooks | first = Richard |work=The Sunday Times |location=London | date = 25 February 2007 | access-date =15 August 2010 }}</ref> Foot rejected honours from [[Elizabeth II|the Queen]] and the government, including a [[knighthood]] and a [[peerage]], on more than one occasion.

He was also an [[atheist]]. {{As of|2021|6}}, he was one of four leaders of the Labour Party to declare that they did not follow any religion.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-04-11|title=Keir Starmer: I may not believe in God, but I do believe in faith|url=https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/keir-starmer-i-may-not-believe-in-god-but-i-do-believe-in-faith-951607|first=Rhiannon|last= Williams|access-date=2021-07-09|website=inews.co.uk|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/2010/10/should_we_keep_god_out_of_poli.html |title=Should we keep God out of politics? |publisher=[[BBC]] |first=William |last=Crawley |author-link=William Crawley|date= 1 October 2010|access-date=24 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170619135140/http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/2010/10/should_we_keep_god_out_of_poli.html |archive-date=19 June 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref>