A new spring is £10 and will take about 30 minutes to fit on your own. With someone else to help you it can be done in 10 minutes, having someone to hold the brake pedal in place against the torsion of the spring whilst you tighten the securing nut is a massive help. Service manual says to put loctite 243 on the nut whilst you do this.
Another temp bodge would be to shorten the rear brake rod that goes into the rear master cylinder and extend the rear brake levers position, this will turn off the brake light but will mean you have no rear brake which could be dangerous.
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