Ken Livingstone
Ken Livingstone
Kenneth Robert "Ken" Livingstoneis an English politician who served as the Leader of the Greater London Councilfrom 1981 until the council was abolished in 1986, and as Mayor of London from the creation of the office in 2000 until 2008. He also served as the Member of Parliamentfor Brent East from 1987 to 2001. A suspended member of the Labour Party, he was on the party's hard left, ideologically identifying as a democratic socialist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth17 June 1945
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But when reporters say to me I'm only doing this because it's my job... that's the same abdication of moral responsibility at the thin end of the wedge that in its most extreme and horrific version ends up with others being prepared to stand as a concentration camp guard.
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I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.
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I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.
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I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.
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I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think.
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When you see someone trying to manoeuvre it round the school gates you have to think, you are a complete idiot.
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I think George Bush is the most corrupt American president since Harding in the Twenties. He is not the legitimate president. This really is a completely unsupportable government and I look forward to it being overthrown as much as I looked forward to Saddam Hussein being overthrown.
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I feel a degree of regret that Marshall did not push on and say 'abolish the GLC' because I think it would have been a major saving and would have released massive resources for productive use.
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These excellent GCSE results are positive news for parents and children and London as a whole.
I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.
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Property is so dear, the only way to provide parking is to reduce the space.
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Texas playing Tower Bridge will be a combination of the modern and the best of the old that reflects the breadth of what London stands for. I am very pleased to give my backing to this unique event Virgin Radio and Texas are putting on.
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Cycling is the fastest, cheapest, most healthy and environmentally friendly way to get around London, and more and more people are taking it up, ... The number of cyclists has doubled over the last five years, while those killed or seriously injured ... has fallen by 40%.
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There's no indication of any terrorist involvement, but it is an absolutely horrendous position because it has caught the rush hour, ... disgrace.