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Welsh politician

Illtyd Harrington (14 July – 1 October ) was a British Labour Party politician who served as deputy leader of the Greater London Council (–84) and then subsequently as chairman (–85).

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He was a political ally of Ken Livingstone.^[1][2]

Personal life

Harrington was a Welshman born in Merthyr Tydfil to Timothy and Sarah (née Burchell) Harrington. It was a mixed marriage; his mother was a devout Catholic.

His father was an atheist and Communist, who fought against the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War. His mother, known as "Sally", was also an anti-fascist. In the poverty of the s, she also sold her wedding ring to keep the family for a week, telling her husband it had dropped down the sink.

"She beat up the national organiser of the British Union of Fascists – she was a woman not of reflection, but of action.

He was coming out with all this racist filth and she went for him with her shoe. And then she took off with the