Ken live on BBC London

Kick-off Eddie and Kath are asking for people to call in with questions. Kath says alcohol abuse and misuse of taxpayer cash could be among the subjects. Crime figures down, but teenage murders. Jacqui Smith not able to walk down the Europe. Transport fares. The low-emission zone. Not a bad little summary that!

Have you had a worse week? Not since I've been Mayor says Ken. Ken goes back to the Standard stories about throwing people over walls and offending journalists. He says it comes and goes in waves, and makes it sound like a media conspiracy to get him out.

On today's resignation, Ken says his people were lied to. We checked, we couldn't find anything. Being very frank on this one, saying she was just silly and should have just come clean.

Have you lost control of your staff? Aren't you just defending them without checking? Doesn't really answer that, just goes back to the specific issue. He says his office has to rely on people giving categorical assurance. Would you have sacked her? We told her that if she lied, it was a disciplinary offence. Yes, we would have sacked her, but it's the Assembly that does that.

What did Lee say? I was the one who broke the news to Lee. He was at a meeting with Scotland Yard when the BBC called. I called him later, and he was devastated.

They're going hard on this, saying Ken wouldn't know if Lee Jasper was lying. Ken is clear on this, defending him very vigorously. He says "I trust Lee with my life."

"I don't feel embarrassed when journalists lie about us" - this in response when Ken's asked if he's embarrassed about today's resignation. He says he only feels sadness to feel a good colleague. Claims "bloggers" are saying the Dispatches programme was a disappointment with nothing in it. He must be reading different blogs to us, obviously.

So far, this is classic Ken. He's being detailed and apparently straightforward, giving full answers and taking it on the chin. No-one's landed a blow yet. This is why he's Mayor.

Bob in Hackney: this trip and role models. What's wrong with role models in this country? Take Eddie and Kath as role models.

Ken: I think that's an ideal suggestion. We have got 78 million quid to spend rebuilding youth provision - alludes to Asian kids "drifting a bit the wrong way", which is perhaps putting it mildly. Bob reckons Ken's lost control of his HQ. He's repeating concerns that Lee Jasper's lying to Ken as well. Ken says he hasn't just accepted Lee, that there's been a "really detailed" look at the allegations. Says there's four, maybe five, organisations where money wasn't handled well, and the police are investigating. But then lays into the Standard and the way it's reported these things, and basically accuses them of suggesting business links between Jasper and the companies concerned.

Tony: on the low-emissions zone. Says there's lots of public bodies who will suffer from it, and people like scout groups (!) won't have any means of transport.

Ken: this won't apply to voluntary minibuses in 2010, and then only to older buses.

Q: Did you try and stop Dispatches?

Ken: I said I'd come in and answer questions live. This was a hatchet job.

Q: Do you respect the GLA

Ken: I don't respect Bob Blackman. He's taking 60 grand from the GLA, he's still got his job with BT. The Labour and Green ones, we keep them busy. But the others, the only one I know who gave up their job was a LibDem.

Q: But are you like a dictator? That bit of the programme really stood out.

Ken: But they didn't show the context. Tories and Liberals aren't doing the full job, and they're criticising Bob Kiley, and I made my views clear.

Brilliant question on whether buses play a fine for entering box junctions. These are the important issues. Ken now expressing support for Our Boys In Blue, saying they need more money.

Now, onto waterworks in the centre of London and how they're making it hard to get around. Ken now in full anti-privatisation mode, saying it should have been done over the last 30 years. It is going to be appalling, he says. But it's got to be done. And uses it to defend the congestion charge.

Now, he's answering questions about how much he drinks. Shouldn't he drink vodka, because you can't smell it? Outrageous! Ken says he wouldn't drink when performing surgery, but does occasionally have a drink at a formal lunch, and he only does four or five of those a year. And also drinks during winter at during GLA sessions, and prefers a single malt. Fantastically rude exchange done with fantastic good humour.

So far, this has a been a bit weird. Extraordinary questions are being asked, and Ken hasn't raised his voice once. I wonder if he's on a heart-rate monitor, because so far he's like James Bond laughing at Le Chiffre.

Pamela in Tulse Hill: super-parochial question about local bus routes which we won't even try to cover.

Ken does say they'll get back to Pamela. Smooth.

Back on utility works on the roads, which have doubled in the last two years. Says government is about to give him powers to regulate utility works in the roads. He gets grief for having "more power" and we get into the accountability issue. Ken says he's accountable to "the people of London". Perhaps a little bit grand, sir?

So, BoJo ahead in the polls? Ken reckons YouGov is skewed and incorrect. He reckons he'd be streets ahead if we had a "fair media". Now banging on about fame and celebrity and how people don't care about important things these days. What on earth does that have to do with it?

Next up, cooling on the Underground. This is why this conversation is weird, oscillating between political theory and local transport. Nice anecdote - when they took over the Underground, they found that all the vents had been blocked up with storage.

Why transport so expensive? Ken says there's no point in putting the council tax up to put the fares down.

Who's funding London's free newspaper? This is the monthly thing all Londoners get through their door. It's very cheap - and it's how we advertise everything we're doing. Ken getting grief for featuring quite so heavily in it. Says he will disappear from it as we get closer to the election.

Ken's just described himself as a "speak as I find" man of the people, specifically in reference to the Oliver Finegold farrago. He's not a "crook who hides" and claims to never leave a press conference before all the questions are answered. Which is true, actually.

Olympics - what are you doing to stop foreigners working on it and making sure British people get the work? Yes, that question really was asked. Next stop, the Reichstag.

Now, we have to watch ourselves here. We can feel the Ken effect starting to work its magic. We're beginning to like him again. He's human, he's approachable, he's charming. Excuse us while we reset our cynicism chip for the final 15 minutes...

Shanice in Peckham works as a volunteer providing services to young people in Brixton and Peckham. Says she's caught in the crossfire of the Lee Jasper investigations - what's Ken going to do to support them? Nice easy one, that - allows Ken to blame bad publicity and the media for stopping good work on the streets.

He's promising a doubling of "youth provision" over the next two years. More adventure playgrounds, then.

But young kids killing each other - can something be done? Ken reckons criminal activity among young people is going down, because police back on the streets can divert young people from crime. Cites Giuliani in New York - police know kids by name. Sounds good. Sounds optimistic. Sounds vaguely unbelievable.

Another question about kids misbehaving on London buses - bit of a theme this evening. Ken says there's been a "dramatic fall" in misbehaviour, but bad language on the buses isn't something you can deal with with police.

Danny in Kensington says crime on the streets is worse than ever, and that he's been threatened with knives twice. Ken says he finds it "striking" that other people say how much things have improved - says "you can't fiddle the murder figures". But what people are talking about is how they feel on the streets, and how they feel intimidated. Ken says there is a problem among a "small minority" of young people. And says the annual opinion poll run by the GLA is going down year and year.

Why should we vote for you? If you've lived in London for eight years, you've seen improvements in transport, in policing, powers to train young people, and I think "the best is yet to come".

Do you have a persecution complex? 22% of people can't stand me, 44% think I'm doing a great job. That's the best figure I've ever hard.

And that's it.