Ken Livingstone

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Ken Livingstone

In office
May 4, 2000 – May 3, 2008
Succeeded by Boris Johnson

Member of Parliament for Brent East
In office
June 11, 1987 – May 14, 2001
Preceded by Reg Freeson
Succeeded by Paul Daisley

Born June 17, 1945 (age 78)
London, United Kingdom
Political party Independent

Kenneth Robert Livingstone (born June 17, 1945) was the first elected Mayor of London. He was elected Mayor as an independent candidate on 4 May 2000 and was re-elected (this time as Labour Party candidate) on 10 June 2004;[1] in the May 2008 mayoral election he was defeated by Boris Johnson.

Livingstone was elected to the Greater London Council (GLC) in 1973 and became Leader of the council in 1981, ousting the existing Labour Party group leader in a 'palace putsch'. As GLC leader he pursued a high-profile campaign of opposition to government policy, so infuriating Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that she abolished the GLC and six other metropolitan county councils in 1986. Between 1987 and 2001 Livingstone was MP for the Brent East constituency in north-west London, for most of that period as a Labour MP. He was expelled from the Labour Party in 2000 for standing for the newly created post of Mayor against an official Labour candidate (the luckless Frank Dobson), but was readmitted in 2004.

References

  1. http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/mayorbiog.jsp