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Ken Livingstone

Kenneth Robert Livingstone (born 17 June 1945) is an 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 suspended member of the Labour Party, he was on the party's hard left, ideologically identifying as a democratic socialist.

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All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, an ...

I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I ...

I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.

I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lectu ...

My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London.

I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime m ...

I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance ...

Give me the whole world to run and then I'll be happy. If tomorrow I was told I had to sort out the ...

I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.

I'm an emotional person; I do occasionally shed a tear.

I mean I get loads of money, all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage ...

I refuse not to have a sense of humour.

The market is a brilliant system for the exchange of goods and services, but it doesn't protect the ...

I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.

If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It