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Michael Foot is often caricatured wearing a donkey jacket, a somewhat inaccurate reference to what was to become an infamous appearance at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday in 1981.

But it was the donkey jacket comment that stuck in the public’s mind, and two years later Mr Foot’s Labour suffered an election hammering at the hands of Mrs Thatcher’s Conservatives.

Origins of the donkey jacket . The barn and chore jackets may be easily extricated from their working- class roots, but one jacket that wears its attitude firmly on its sleeve is the donkey jacket.