The Blairite Ken
By Colin Foster On Tuesday 6 January, the Labour Party readmitted London mayor Ken Livingstone to membership. He had been expelled in 2000, when he ran against Labour for mayor and won, after being denied the Labour nomination despite being the majority choice of Labour Party members and trade unions in London. Is this a triumph for the left? Or a sell-out by the previously "red" Ken? Neither. Ken Livingstone was a left-wing local Labour councillor in the late 1970s. One of many, alongside, for example, David Blunkett and Margaret Hodge. Elected leader of the old Greater London Council in May...