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As his nephew, Paul, lay in a simple wicker coffin, the Hon Michael Foot, the former Labour Party leader, read a tribute from Wordsworth:
‘Ye die not; do thou
Wear rather in thy bonds a cheerful
brow:
Though fallen thyself, never to rise again,
Live and take comfort! Thou has left
behind
Powers that will work for thee; air, earth
and skies.
There’s not a breathing of the common
wind
That will forget thee.’
Three months later, at a sold-out Hackney Empire celebration of Paul’s life, a visibly ailing Michael Foot, then 91, whose nephew had died aged 66,
