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  • Chair of the Finance and General Purposes committee.
  • Shadow chancellor refuses to call for Ken Livingstone's expulsion over Hitler remarks but says he must show 'honest contrition'.
  • "I wish Ken Livingstone would have apologised today for some of the offence he's caused".

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    Ken Livingstone

    English politician (born 1945)

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    Kenneth Robert Livingstone (; born 17 June 1945) is a retired[2] English 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. He also served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brent East from 1987 to 2001. A former member of the Labour Party, he was on the party's hard left, ideologically identifying as a socialist.

    Born in Lambeth, South London, to a working-class family, Livingstone joined Labour in 1968 and was elected to företräda Norwood at the GLC in 1973, Hackney North and Stoke Newington in 1977, and Paddington in 1981. That year, Labour representatives on the GLC elected him as the council's leader. Attempting to reduce London Underground fares, his plans were challenged in court and declared unlawf

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    Labour divided: John McDonnell’s blazing row with Ken Livingstone revealed

    Election: McDonnell admits pensioners will miss out on £1000

    Mr McDonnell is the shadow chancellor under Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn who recently proposed a “radical” manifesto with increased spending across the board. This has triggered critics to claim Mr Corbyn and Mr McDonnell need a "magic money tree" to meet their spending plans. Such criticism reflects similar issues that arose with Mr McDonnell when he was the chair of finance for the Greater London Council (GLC) in the Eighties, before he was elected to Parliament. In 1984, he was promoted to Deputy Leader beneath future London Mayor Ken Livingstone – however, he only stayed in the position for a year before he was sacked.

    Tensions ran high between the two of them when Mr McDonnell helped to influence the GLC at a time when Margaret Thatcher was trying to cap council rates.

    As The Guardian reported in September 2015: “For months [the GLC] made

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    John McDonnell 'could weep' over Labour anti-Semitism row

    Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has said he "could weep" over allegations of anti-Semitism within the Labour Party and has called on Ken Livingstone to apologise.

    In what will be seen as the strongest intervention from those around the leadership, Mr McDonnell said on Sophy Ridge on Sunday that he was "quite angry" about Mr Livingstone's repeated assertions that Hitler supported Zionism.

    Asked about whether Labour is doing enough to tackle anti-Semitism, he said: "It's a tragedy, an absolute tragedy, I could weep about it, I really could."

    He added: "I believe our party is still the anti-racist party that I joined. I think there is anti-Semitism in our community and it will pervade all our institutions and we've got to root it out.

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    "The shock to me is the figures, last year 1,300 anti-Semitic incidents, hate crimes reported across our whole community