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Livingstone to walk after newspaper shock revelation

Position 'untenable', admits courageous urban leader
by College Green

Brave municipal statesman Ken Livingstone is likely to stand down as London's Mayor after he discovered that he had in fact received backing during his last election from Blackshirt scandal sheet the Evening Standard.

Ken Livingstone: No apology"Anyone supported by the Standard is tarnished goods as far as I am concerned," said a clearly emotional Livingstone as he left a party to celebrate Chris Smith's 25 years of HIV last week. "If they backed me then I don't see how my position is tenable," he added before refusing to apologise to anyone for anything, ever.

The covert support for the courageous urban leader was only discovered after investigators confronted Livingstone with an obscure message, hidden away on page one of the Standard, reading "Ken's The One".

It was later revealed that the groundbreaking city visionary's plans to retire from polities and resume his former career as a restaurant reviewer have been put on hold after Livingstone learned that his previous columns had in fact been published the right-wing attack dog rag the Evening Standard.

"This is an outrage", said an obviously affected Livingstone as he left a party to celebrate two years of congestion charging. "If I received money from the Standard then I don't see how I can be trusted. Of course, I had no idea that it happened and it's all down to the Daily Mail group's endorsement of Roderick Spode back in the 1930s."

Sources close to Livingstone say that he will make a formal refusal to apologise for any of the above during the next plenary session of the London Assembly.

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