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You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again.

Ken Livingstone

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Ken Livingstone
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 17
Autobiographer
Broadcaster
Former Mayor Of London
Politician
Kenneth Robert Livingstone
Kenneth Robert Ken Livingstone
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