Ken Livingstone

...bid for the 2012 Olympics serious political opponents put their enmities aside for the greater cause. Few seriously believed Ken Livingstone and Tony Blair would share the same room let alone a platform. But they did. Because they knew...

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...Neil who could become "unavailable". They also want sofa pundits Michael Portillo and Diane Abbott axed and suggest Lord Mandelson, Ken Livingstone or Alastair Campbell for the Labour side. Advertisement - article continues below » From...

In this article: Peter Mandelson, Michael Portillo, Tories, Nick Robinson, and Diane Abbott

Gilligan has his merits, but he's not that sort of reporter. Whatever he's involved in, he's a robust partisan - ask Ken Livingstone. But this is an issue that invites partisanship, my limp-wristed version too. I was never starry-eyed...

In this article: Tony Blair, Iraq War, Saddam Hussein, UN, Andrew Gilligan, Lawrence Freedman, Martin Gilbert, and Piers Morgan

...Skinner or Diane Abbott would be just as beneficial as David Miliband or Harriet Harman - though maybe there's a scenario whereby Ken Livingstone is parachuted into a safe seat. The last scenario being no more fanciful than the absence of...

In this article: Labour, Gordon Brown, Tax, Tories, Polly Toynbee, Banana, Diane Abbott, and Vince Cable

...other road plans. Drivers faced delays when hundreds of traffic lights were rephased in London, while Ken Livingstone was Mayor, although he denied this was the purpose of the exercise. According to the AA engineers elsewhere have also...

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...killer disease. Without hope, their final days will be all the more agonising. High-profile: Politicians, such as ex-London Mayor Ken Livingstone, pictured here with model Caprice, left, and actress Leanne Wilson, love to be photographed for...

In this article: Cancer, Europe, Department of Health, Breast cancer, Lung cancer, Britain, and Labour Party

...tries to reject my affection. It disfigures itself with ugliness - now with idiot towers as its mayor, Boris Johnson, vies with Ken Livingstone in their penis envy of New York. It afflicts the visitor with what Jan experiences as she steps...

In this article: London, Wales, Jan Morris, Volvo, Eric Newby, and Everest

Britain's favourite blond was crowned The Most Influential Londoner, and was spotted deep in conversation with his old enemy Ken Livingstone -- still, yes, amazingly influential. Top Shop's Sir Philip Green was also present among the...

In this article: Boris Johnson, New York, Dublin, London, and Evening Standard

...contemporaneous dispatches from the front line, so it is instructive, if unfair, to see what he got wrong and right. He thinks that Ken Livingstone will lead the Labour Party and that Thatcher's premiership will falter unless Ted Heath joins...

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...aroused controversy, and sometimes seem to have been meant to, especially during the period when Ken Livingstone was mayor. It often seemed that Ken Livingstone had taken office in order to be controversial. Such was the level of controversy...

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