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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Working with the Jewish community is essential to me and what I stand for.
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It's dramatically less. We think the return would be massively beneficial.
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Property is so dear, the only way to provide parking is to reduce the space.
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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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I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.
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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.
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I never came into life with any favours or privileges.
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The Tories had the legal right to demand extra meetings of the council but I could decide when they would be held and always called them for Friday afternoons, knowing that three or four of the richer Tories went to the country early and were not prepared to stay in the city beyond lunchtime. I realised that nothing in politics is new when I read in Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars that Julius Caesar pulled the same trick when reactionaries in the senate were making his life difficult.
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If transport, housing and Olympic projects do not work, I will crawl away under a stone.
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You can't expect to work for the Daily Mail group and have the rest of society treat with you respect as a useful member of society, because you are not.
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I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.