The Mayor and a Matter of Principle ; As Ken Livingstone Prepares to Meet the Board of Deputies of British Jews, an Apology for His 'Nazi' Outburst Is Long Overdue
Evening Standard - London › February 21, 2005
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THE past 10 days have seen an extraordinary political crisis develop in London, with ripples that are both national and international. Ken Livingstone's remarks to an Evening Standard reporter, Oliver Finegold, have caused concern at every level of public life in this country and cast a long shadow over London's greatest economic opportunity for the next decade - the winning of the Olympic bid for 2012.
The furore arose and persists for one simple reason: despite the existence of a tape in which he uttered outrageous slurs against a journalist who happens to be Jewish, Mr Livingstone has refused to admit wrongdoing, or to apologise. Indeed the Mayor has sought to deflect attention from the cause of the row - his own remarks - with a series of false allegations against this newspaper.See the full content of this document
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The Mayor and a Matter of Principle ; As Ken Livingstone Prepares to Meet the Board of Deputies of British Jews, an Apology for His 'Nazi' Outburst Is Long Overdue
This is not a row about the Mayor's relationship with the Evening Standard.
It is about the vanity and arrogance of one man in power and his accountability to the public. It is a democratic principle that if politicians say something wrong, they retract and regret. Ken Livingstone has refused to...See the full content of this document
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