Politician who was Ken Livingstone’s deputy leader and chairman at the Greater London council in the early 1980sThe Welsh-born London politician Illtyd Harrington,who has died aged 84, was most regularly in the public eye while serving as Ken Livingstone’s deputy leader at the Greater London council (1981-84), or then as its chairman (1984-85). A mountainous,bear-like man, occasionally dramatic, and always highly articulate,and approachable in conversation, he came to the post with the experience of having been a teacher in the East End in addition to his many years on various councils. He helped to manage the complex relationship between the Labour leadership and a party group that was often badly split over the Livingstone administration’s struggle with Margaret Thatcher’s government across the Thames from County corridor.
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Source: theguardian.com