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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I could not cherish London and not value Jewish London. The contribution of Jews to London is immense - politically, economically, culturally, intellectually, philanthropically, artistically.
I'm an emotional person; I do occasionally shed a tear.
Well, I mean, I'm very much a pragmatic person.
The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative.
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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.
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There isn't much about my life that's been particularly conventional.
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Well, I get on with people who believe in something.
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My only regret is the media's obsession with the past.
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Working with the Jewish community is essential to me and what I stand for.
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I've met serial killers and professional assassins and nobody scared me as much as MrsT.
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I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.
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Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.
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I refuse not to have a sense of humour.
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I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.