Members of the Greater London Council: Jeffrey Archer, Ken Livingstone, John McDonnell, Paul Boateng, Sir George Young, 6th Baronet, Tony Banks
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 54. Chapters: Jeffrey Archer, Ken Livingstone, John McDonnell, Paul Boateng, Sir George Young, 6th Baronet, Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, List of Greater London Council committee chairs, Edward Leigh, Raine Spencer, Countess Spencer, Christopher Chataway, Bob Neill, Reg Prentice, Baron Prentice, Ashley Bramall, Rose Hacker, Vivian Bendall, Audrey Callaghan, Baroness Callaghan of Cardiff, Frances Morrell, Louis Gluckstein, Reg Goodwin, Bill Fiske, Baron Fiske, Donald Soper, Baron Soper, Horace Cutler, Victor Mishcon, Baron Mishcon, Desmond Plummer, Beatrice Serota, Baroness Serota, Michael Grylls, David Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead, Christopher Bland, Andrew McIntosh, Baron McIntosh of Haringey, Lena Townsend, Bryn Davies, Robert Gurth Hughes, Marion Roe, Harry Lamborn, Stephen Haseler, Adrian Slade, Unity Lister, Tony Arbour, Richard Balfe, Jack Dunnett, Toby Jessel, Peggy Jay, Mike Tuffrey, Gerald Bowden, Arthur Wicks, David Ashby, Florence Cayford, Samuel Isidore Salmon, John Wilson. Excerpt: Kenneth Robert "Ken" Livingstone (born 17 June 1945) is an English Labour Party politician. During his political career, he has twice held the leading political role in London local government, firstly as Leader of the Greater London Council from 1981 until the council was abolished in 1986, and secondly as the first elected Mayor of London, a post he held from its creation in 2000 until 2008. He also served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Brent East between 1987 and 2001. He is currently standing as the Labour Party candidate in the London mayoral election, 2012. Born into a working class family in Lambeth, London, Livingstone worked as a cancer research technician before getting involved in politics, becoming a Labour Party member in 1968. He was elected to represent Norwood at the Greater London Council in 1973, before transferring t...