by 1993 there was considerable tension within the ara between wadsworth and ken livingstone. on 23 september 1994 the ara issued a statement claiming that "ken livingstone, supported by a faction called socialist action and a handful of unprincipled and unrepresentative members of the executive committee, has been waging a relentless campaign to sack [wadsworth] the national secretary." on 30 september 1994 livingstone went to the high court to determine voting rights for the delegates to the ara's forthcoming annual meeting and an out-of-court settlement was reached. in october 1994 both livingstone and wadsworth stepped down. wadsworth gave way to kumar murshid, a future livingstone mayoral adviser on race. murshid walked away from the job after turning up at the ara's offices to find that wadsworth's staff had changed the locks for security reasons. the ara collapsed rapidly after unions, including the transport and general workers union, withdrew support.