Obituary: Dave Wetzel (1942-2024)

Richard Walker pays tribute to Dave Wetzel (with full acknowledgement to Murad Qureishi’s obituary in Morning Star).

Dave Wetzel, co-operator and social reformer, who has died aged 82, was one of the great characters of London government and of the local transport policy scene, of whom it can fairly be said: they are not making them like him anymore.  

As one of Ken Livingstone’s key lieutenants, he was at the centre of London’s public transport renaissance: first in the 1980s as chair of the Greater London Council’s Transport Committee, and then again in the 2000s as the first...

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