Ken Livingstone(I)

His decision to run for the London Mayoral election of 2000 against the official Labour Party candidate, Frank Dobson, contravened Labour Party rules and his membership of the party was terminated. He had to run as an independent. On 5 May 2000, he was elected Mayor of London. His campaign for Mayor was supported by celebrities such as actors Neil Pearson and Harry Enfield and the pop singer Damon Albarn.

[in 2009] It used to be politics was a serious debate about the issues. Increasingly, it's "Are they good-looking? Would you like to sit next to them at a dinner party?" The two politicians who most changed the last sixty years are Clem Attlee (Clement Attlee), who people didn't even know he was in the room but he was hard as nails in doing the job, and Margaret Thatcher. No one liked Margaret Thatcher but they respected her. Now we've got to like politicians.