An Audience with Ken Livingstone

Hard left politician Ken Livingstone, former Mayor of London, Member of Parliament and one-time Leader of the Greater London Council, he spent forty years in front-line politics and we are thrilled that he’s heading to Beccles this Summer.

He announced his retirement after losing last May’s London Mayoral election to Boris Johnson. He described it as “the defeat I most regret”.

Book your ticket now to for An Audience with Ken Livingtone set for Sunday 5th June at 2.30pm at Beccles Public Hall

You might think he’d put his feet up and take the easy option but now he’s heading out on the road to appear in An Audience With Ken Livingstone. The afternoon – including a “no holds barred” question and answer session – looks like offering a treat for anyone interested in politics. For Livingstone has had an extraordinary political career. Dubbed ‘Red-Ken’ by the media in the 1980s, he went on to clash bitterly with Margaret Thatcher who promptly turfed him out of a job by abolishing the GLC.

He became Labour MP for Brent and then in 2000 became the first elected Mayor of London. He was lavished with public praise for upgrading the city’s transport system, introducing the congestion charge, the Oyster card and bus and cycle lanes. He also oversaw the bid that led to the 2012 Summer Olympics. But he still lost two mayoral elections to Conservative candidate Boris Johnson.

A polarising figure in British politics, Livingstone is the author of two autobiographies – If Voting Changed Anything, They’d Abolish It (1987) and You Can’t Say That (2012)

Tickets are available now from Beccles Public Hall website @ www.becclespublichall.com, from the Box Office, open Mon to Sat, 10am to 5pm or by ringing: 01502 770060.

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