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London mayor wins suspension appeal
LONDON'S Mayor Ken Livingstone won a High Court challenge to overturn a four-week suspension from office for likening a Jewish reporter to a concentration camp guard.At the end of a two-day hearing Justice Andrew Collins said he would quash the suspension and give his full decisions and reasons at a later date. In February this year the Standards Board for England had found Mr Livingstone's comments to journalist Oliver Finegold some 12 months earlier to be "unnecessarily insensitive and offensive". The Board suspended Mr Livingstone, one of Britain's most colourful and popular politicians, for a month beginning March 1, for bringing his office as Mayor of London into disrepute. The suspension was delayed by the High Court while the mayor appealed. Mr Livingstone has consistently refused to apologise for the remarks and said the panel that suspended him had overstepped its remit. Posted by: tipper 2006-10-05 |
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