London mayor suspended over Nazi jibe

London Mayor Ken Livingstone has been suspended for four weeks for bringing his office into disrepute, a disciplinary tribunal ruled today.

London mayor suspended over Nazi jibe

London Mayor Ken Livingstone has been suspended for four weeks for bringing his office into disrepute, a disciplinary tribunal ruled today.

The three-man Adjudication Panel for England unanimously ruled that Mr Livingstone had been “unnecessarily insensitive and offensive” to Evening Standard journalist, Oliver Finegold, by comparing him to a Nazi concentration camp guard in February last year.

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