Mayor of London
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The mayor of London is the strategic authority mayor for the Greater London Authority. The role was created in 2000 after the Greater London devolution referendum in 1998, and was the first directly e
Sadiq Khan at 2026 SXSW London 03
Boris Johnson
Ken Livingstone
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Kenneth Robert Livingstone is an English politician who served as the Leader of the Greater London Council from 1981 until the council was abolished in 1986, and as the first mayor of London from the
Mayor of London
…elected mayor in the United Kingdom. Sadiq Khan took office as mayor on 9 May 2016, and was re-elected in 2021 and 2024. The position had been held by Ken Livingstone from the creation of the role on 4 May 2000 until he was defeated after two terms in May 2008 by Boris Johnson, who also served two terms before Khan…
Livingstone at the World Economic Forum in 2008
Margaret Thatcher, leader (1975–90) of the Conservative Party, prime minister (1979–90) of the United Kingdom
County Hall in Lambeth, then home of the Greater London Council
Livingstone's willingness to meet publicly with Irish republican leader Gerry Adams (above, pictured in 2001), caused outrage within his own party and the British press