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It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the [congestion] charge that everybody else is paying and not actually try and skive out of it like some chiselling little crook.

Ken Livingstone

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Ken Livingstone
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 17
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