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
class self tradition
I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.
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Yes, there are lots of individual exceptions. But no one has ever done a study about voting intention without ascertaining that the biggest determining factor is your income and your wealth.
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I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability.
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Working with the Jewish community is essential to me and what I stand for.
obsession
My only regret is the media's obsession with the past.
believed
Thatcher was prepared to destroy the world rather than give in on something she believed in.
believe people
Well, I get on with people who believe in something.
argue issues
When I'm sifting the compost seed or pruning, I argue over issues in my head; I talk to myself.
life
There isn't much about my life that's been particularly conventional.
people
Most people wouldn't want to marry a politician.
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The best way to demonstrate the values of a western democracy is you put Osama bin Laden on trial; you challenge what he says.
allowed express themselves
Most politicians aren't allowed to express themselves any more.
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Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London.
The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative.