Ken Livingstone, a British Labour Party politician, was the final leader of the Greater London Council. Livingstone took up the post on 17 May 1981, and remained in office until the GLC was abolished
County Hall in Lambeth, then home of the Greater London Council.
Livingstone's willingness to meet with Irish republican leader Gerry Adams (above, pictured in 2001), caused outrage within his own party and the British press.
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The loony left is a pejorative term used to describe those considered to be politically hard left. First recorded as used in 1977, the term was widely used in the United Kingdom in the campaign for th
Neil Kinnock, the Labour Party leader when the term became widely used at the 1987 general election
