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I take a much more pragmatic view than many people on the Left about working with Neil Kinnock. Kinnock represents the best vehicle possible for achieving socialism now.
Ken Livingstone
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Ken Livingstone
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 17
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Kenneth Robert Livingstone
Kenneth Robert Ken Livingstone
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Working with the Jewish community is essential to me and what I stand for. I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people. The Tories take Jewish London for granted. I will not.
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I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.
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