There goes another one

While BoJo tries to smooth over past transgressions, it's getting worse and worse for Ken. This morning, the deputy to his under-fire advisor Lee Jasper has quit, after flagrantly lying to the Beeb over an expenses-paid trip to Nigeria.

It's the first high-level resignation among Livingstone's team during the current round of media character assassinations which are becoming all the rage. Yesterday, assassin-in-chief Andrew Gilligan let rip with a typically abstruse story about how another Livingstone adviser, Mark Watts, registered three election campaign sites for Ken while working for the Greater London Assembly.

Ken's response so far has seen more uses of the word "smear" than a decade's worth of Mr Sheen adverts. So it'll be interesting what he says on BBC London tonight. Because we like this story (it has a tasty fin-de-siecle stench about it), we're going to be liveblogging his performance. Come back here at six tonight, as they say on the wireless.