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Ken Livingstone
English politician (born 1945)
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Kenneth Robert Livingstone (; born 17 June 1945) is a retired[2] English politician who served as the Leader of the Greater London Council (GLC) from 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 Parliament (MP) for Brent East from 1987 to 2001. A former member of the Labour Party, he was on the party's hard left, ideologically identifying as a socialist.
Born in Lambeth, South London, to a working-class family, Livingstone joined Labour in 1968 and was elected to represent Norwood at the GLC in 1973, Hackney North and Stoke Newington in 1977, and Paddington in 1981. That year, Labour representatives on the GLC elected him as the council's leader. Attempting to reduce London Underground fares, his plans were challenged in court and declared unlawful; more successful were his schemes to benefit women and several minority groups, despite stiff opp
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Ken Livingstone
Kenneth Robert Livingstone is an English politician who served as the Leader of the Greater London Council from 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 Parliament for Brent East from 1987 to 2001.
This interview was conducted on 9 June 2022.
Q: Could you briefly summarise your role in growth policy over the past few decades?
I joined the Labour Party in 1969 and started studying everything. I realised in the 1970s, when I was a Lambeth councillor and then a member of the Greater London Council (“GLC”) that investment is the single most important factor in driving a national economy. The problem for Britain had been that our level of investment, both public and private, had not been equal to our clear rivals like France and Germany. We’d always lagged behind, and I suspect largely because the British government, Labour or Tory, was always spending far too much on nuclear weapons and colonial war
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Ken Livingstone
Ken Livingstone is a British politician who has twice held the leading political role in London regional government. He served as the Leader of the Greater London Council from 1981 until the Council was abolished in 1986, and then as the first elected Mayor of London from the creation of the office in 2000 until 2008. He also served as MP for Brent East from 1987 to 2001. His autobiography, You Can't Say That, was published by Faber and Faber in 2011.
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