Ken Livingstone

Ken Livingstone was born in Lambeth in 1945 and educated at Tulse Hill Comprehensive School. After eight years working as a technician at the Chester Beatty Cancer Research Institute in London, he entered Phillipa Fawcett Teacher Training College, qualifying in 1973.

He was elected to the position of Mayor of London in 2000, having been expelled from the Labour party for running as an independent candidate. He was readmitted to the Labour Party in 2004, shortly before re-election as Mayor, and is standing as Labour’s candidate for Mayor of London in 2012.

Ken's eagerly-awaited memoirs of his political life, You Can't Say That, are to be published by Faber and Faber in November 2011.