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    Ken Livingstone

    English politician ; Mayor of London from 2000 until 2008

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  1. 6 days ago · Kenneth Robert Livingstone (born 17 June 1945) is an English retired [2] 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.

  2. May 3, 2024 · It is also arguable that the UK’s most effective mayor so far is Ken Livingstone, the hard left firebrand who became London’s first mayor, to the horror of Tony Blair.

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  3. May 5, 2024 · It was the first time any candidate for London mayor has won a third term in office, with Mr Khan's predecessors Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone both having served two terms. As he took to the ...

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  5. May 2, 2024 · 2 May 2024 Claudia Lee. On May 4, 2000, South London born and raised Ken Livingstone became Mayor of London. The independent candidate and MP, expelled from the Labour Party, won the contest with a clear victory, having polled nearly 40 per cent of first preferences. Livingstone had already captured the top job in London Government two decades ...

  6. May 4, 2024 · Ken Livingstone was London’s first directly-elected mayor, serving from 2000 until 2008. PA Archive. In that earlier contest - the capital’s first mayoral election - Mr Livingstone achieved...

  7. May 5, 2024 · Andy Beckett’s new book is, he writes in the introduction, “the story of a group of political explorers and of a series of interlocking political journeys which are rarely considered as a whole”. The explorers in question are Diane Abbott, Jeremy Corbyn, Ken Livingstone, John McDonnell and Tony Benn. Beckett’s The Searchers is a group ...

  8. May 10, 2024 · And it broke so much new ground. Ken Livingstone was the first mayor – and, like Ben Houchen, re-elected Conservative mayor of Tees Valley last week, Livingstone ran against his party.

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