We did this through the GLC's Greater London Enterprise Board - something that was "partnership" incarnate.
She said business was scared by Mr Livingstone's comments on the WTO and also remembered his days as leader of the GLC.
And it said it remained in the ownership of the GLC until its dissolution in 1985, after which it was transferred to Bromley.
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The Tories centralised power in Whitehall, taking powers particularly from local government (in some cases, as with the GLC, abolishing it when it dissented).
Certainly the Popular Planning Unit, which I directed and which worked for the Industry and Employment Committee of the GLC, was an independently minded gang.
As the head of the Greater London Council (GLC) in the 1980s, Livingstone earned the moniker "Red Ken" for standing up to Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on a number of issues.
The only policy of the Livingstone GLC which is remembered and respected, and was successful, is "Fares Fair" - cuts in fares and simplified fares, to get people back onto public transport.
The first sign that Ken Livingstone's GLC represented a new politics was that he did not ask me to a show a party card before offering me the job of economic adviser.
The former MP, who in 2002 became a father for the first time at the age of 57, became a public figure in the 1980s as leader of the Greater London Council (GLC).
He was a leading member of the GLC during Ken Livingstone's heyday and soon after his election in 1983, offered to resign his seat so that Tony Benn could re-enter Parliament to stand as Labour's leader.
And while Jamie's listeners were introduced to the GLC brand of music, the boys were also able to dispense some valuable horticultural advice to callers putting their questions to Francesca Kay, the show's regular a gardening expert.
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His time at the GLC also saw him campaign against its abolition and in favour of its "Fares Fair" policy, which pioneered the use of modern advertising techniques in political communication some time before the wider Labour Party discovered their effective use.
Whether or not Mrs Thatcher would have wanted to abolish the GLC if Livingstone had not been the leader (and different Tory ministers of the time now say different things about that), the fact is that she did abolish city government in London in 1986.
Because so much of the best of New Labour, or at least of its rhetoric, can be traced back to Ken Livingstone's GLC - perhaps by no accident, as I would have bumped into at least two of Blair's top advisers roaming the corridors of County Hall: Geoff Mulgan and David Miliband.
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