Despite Conservative hopes, the first GLC consisted of 64 Labour and 36 Conservative councillors and Labour Group leader Bill Fiske became the first Leader of the Council.

Despite paying lip service to the campaign, the GLC set a legal rate on schedule, passed by moderate Labour councillors with the support of Conservative opposition members.

Among the first decisions taken under Davies ' control was to allow GLC Teachers paid leave to attend the " People's March for Jobs ", a protest against unemployment, but a rebellion by right-wing Labour councillors defeated the plan.

The new authority had similar powers to the old GLC, but was made up of a directly elected Mayor and a London Assembly.

The Labour Party never supported the abolition of the GLC and made it a policy to re-establish some form of city-wide elected authority.

The Labour party adopted a policy of a single, directly elected Mayor ( a policy first suggested by Tony Banks in 1990 ), together with an elected Assembly watching over the Mayor ; this model, based on American cities, was partly aimed at making sure the new body resemble the erstwhile GLC as little as possible.

Boateng was only the second person of Afro-Caribbean descent to be elected to the GLC.

In 1970, Young was elected to the Greater London Council ( GLC ) as one of four Members for the London Borough of Ealing.

In 1981, McDonnell was elected to the Greater London Council ( GLC ) as a member for Hayes and Harlington.

McDonnell contended that accepting the cap would lead to a reduction in spending and prevent the GLC, which had already lost all of its funding from central government, from honoring the manifesto pledges Labour had been elected on in 1981.

He hated the job and left to campaign to be elected GLC councillor for Putney.

He was a GLC councillor for Surbiton from 1983 to 1986 and was first elected to the London Assembly in 2000.

She became unsatisfied with his leadership, which she considered weak, and built support for a change through the GLC Women's Group ; in April 1983 she challenged him and was elected as the new leader.

Among those who were first elected to the GLC in 1970 were Tony Banks ( Labour, Hammersmith, later Minister for Sport ) and Sir George Young ( Conservative, Ealing, later a cabinet minister under John Major ).

As there had been a boundary commission report with new Parliamentary constituencies which coincided with the border of Greater London, the electoral system was changed slightly ( as had always been intended ) so that the GLC was elected from single member electoral divisions which were identical with the Parliamentary constituencies.

Among those who were first elected to the GLC in 1973 were Ken Livingstone ( Labour, Lambeth, Norwood ), later to lead it, and Andrew McIntosh ( Labour, Haringey, Tottenham ) who was his brief moderate rival for the Labour leadership.

Part III of the Act also set up the Inner London Education Authority, which had previously been a committee of the GLC responsible for education in Inner London, as a directly elected body.

The twenty outer London boroughs became local education authorities, while a new Inner London Education Authority, consisting of the members of the GLC elected for the inner boroughs covering the former County of London was created.

The GLC was abolished in 1986 with responsibility for public transport removed two years earlier in 1984.

The Greater London Authority, a replacement authority for the GLC, was set up in 2000 with a transport executive called Transport for London ( TfL ) that took control from 3 July 2000.

Many people have surmised that the decision to abolish the GLC was made because of the existence of a high-spending left-wing Labour administration under Livingstone, although pressure for the abolition of the GLC had arisen before Mr Livingstone took over, and was largely driven by the belief among the outer London Borough councils that they could perform the functions of the GLC just as well.

The Greater London Council ( GLC ) was the top-tier local government administrative body for Greater London from 1965 to 1986.

The GLC was responsible for running strategic services such as the fire service, emergency planning, waste disposal and flood prevention.

The GLC shared responsibility with the London boroughs for providing roads, housing, city planning and leisure services.

In 2000, Great Lakes Chemical Corporation ( GLC ) sued Monsanto for the $ 71 million shortfall in expected sales.

In 1999, Monsanto had sold GLC a business unit, NSC Technologies, for approximately $ 125 million in cash ; NSC Technologies developed, manufactured and sold chiral pharmaceutical intermediates and select bulk actives to pharmaceutical companies, including the key ingredient of aspartame.

Much of Thamesmead was initially built by the Greater London Council ( GLC ) for rent to families moving from overcrowded back-to-back Victorian housing ( also referred to as slums ) in south eastern parts of Inner London.

After the abolition of the GLC in 1986 the responsibility for operating the service was transferred to the Secretary of State for Transport, who contracted the then London Borough of Greenwich to run the service.

It seemed that the local council would have to foot the enormous bill for reconstruction, but after starting legal action against the Greater London Council a settlement was achieved, in which the GLC paid a large sum of money to the local council, which started a programme of refurbishment that finished in 1995.

He did not contest his seat on the GLC in 1973, having been selected as a candidate for Parliament.

The GLC was very proud of the Lakes Estate, declaring it to be the finest in modern architecture for a working class estate, based on the design concept pioneered in Radburn, New Jersey.

It was designed by Ernő Goldfinger in 1963 for the London County Council, built 1965-67 by the GLC, and has been a Grade II listed building since 1996.

When the GLC had been created, many had assumed it would be a natural Conservative victory, but due to the exclusion of some Conservative-voting areas from the new boundaries and to the national trend of some dissatisfaction with the Conservative government and enthusiasm for the Labour opposition, Labour won a narrow victory in votes.

Specifically, GLC and the MCCs only provided 16 % and 26 % of services in their areas respectively-however the shire county councils provided 87 % of services in their areas.

The GLC broadly controlled only those services within the boundaries of Greater London.

The GLC was established by the London Government Act 1963, which sought to create a new body covering all of London rather than just the inner part of the conurbation, additionally including and empowering newly-created London boroughs within the overall administrative structure.

However Davies never had to deal with the abolition of ILEA, as his deputy Frances Morrell used her connections within the GLC Women's Group to depose him in April 1983.

* London Transport Executive ( GLC ), the executive agency within the Greater London Council, responsible for public transport in Greater London from 1970 to 1984

The first Mayor of London and former head of the GLC Ken Livingstone spent most of his childhood in Streatham.

Along and around the South Bank a tourist area has developed around the former GLC headquarters of County Hall and the Royal Festival Hall and National Theatre.

Boateng's ministerial colleagues encouraged him to stand as the Labour candidate to be the Mayor of London ; however, he ruled himself out and strongly criticised his former GLC colleague Ken Livingstone.

According to British author and former GLC member George Tremlett, Libyan children spent two hours a week studying the book as part of their curriculum ; extracts were broadcast every day on television and radio ; its slogans were found on billboards and painted on buildings in Libya ; and as of 1993 lectures and seminars on it at universities and colleges have been held in France, Eastern Europe, Colombia, and Venezuela.

After looking at many buildings, the working group located a disused former meat warehouse near Smithfield market in Farringdon which could be suitably converted and this was purchased by the GLC.

Today the GLC operates former Ann Arbor track from Osmer to Yuma, Michigan ( just west of Cadillac ), former PRR from Cadillac to Petoskey and Walton to Traverse City, former C & O from Grawn to Williamsburg, former NYC from Owosso to Fergus, and former Grand Trunk Western from Ashley to Middleton.