LIVINGSTONE FAILURE TO APOLOGISE 'DEEPLY REGRETTABLE'

3.50.50pm GMT Mon 14th Feb 2005

Commenting on the refusal of Ken Livingstone to apologise for the remarks made to an Evening Standard reporter likening him to a 'concentration camp guard', Liberal Democrat London Assembly member, Sally Hamwee, said:-

"It is deeply regrettable that the Mayor has failed yet again to take the opportunity to apologise to both the reporter and Londoners for his inappropriate, insensitive and indefensible comments."

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