Ken Livingstone
Ken Livingstone speaks to the media after losing his bid to be elected as London mayor at City Hall in central London on May 4, 2012. While the Labour Party have made large gains across the country in local elections, Johnson retained his position for the Conservative Party in a battle with Labour's Ken Livingstone.
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Given the odds stacked against Ken Livingstone, for there to be a swing from Boris Johnson to him, and to only lose by 62,000 votes out of more than two million cast, execeeded all expectations expressed during the campaign.
I will spend the rest of my life regretting we didn't win this one because it would have made a lot of difference to people's lives.
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reed.co.uk Ask: Can Boris Deliver Jobs in London?
re-elected Conservative candidate, Boris Johnson, as their mayor. Johnson fended-off stern competition from Labour stalwart, Ken Livingstone, to retain London's mayoralty. However, months before political debate over taxes and the shape of red buses dominated from MarketWire Read more »
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An Open Letter to Andrew Gilligan
am writing to you as the editor of Ken Livingstone's memoirs "You Can't Say That" published by Faber and Faber in hardback on 3 November 2011 and re-issued in paperback on 5 April 2012. Pages 642 to 645 of the book refer to a series of articles written by from Faber Read more »
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Some fascinating and disturbing Olympics reporting from Vanity Fair #london2012
July 5, 2005, the mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, took up his pen to make official his city’s agreement with the International Olympic Committee. The 2012 Olympics had not yet been awarded to London—it would be, the following day—but the I.O.C. insists that from Newsjiffy Blog Read more »
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London: Destination of the Week
He has also pledged to reduce carbon emissions 60 percent by 2025, an ambitious aim first brandished by previous Mayor Ken Livingstone. How will this be done? By retrofitting public buildings to increase energy efficiency, creating bicycle superhighways around from Mother Nature Network Read more »
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Matthew Sinclair: The Tax Reform Britain Needs
"Red" Ken Livingstone, the Labour Party candidate for mayor of London, to Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee for president of the United States, politicians have been getting in trouble over their taxes. With voters struggling to make ends meet from Wall Street Journal Read more »
