Despite his protestations of "smear" and "hatchet job" in recent days it would appear the cards have begun to tumble around Ken Livingstone. Whilst his inner circle has so far remained intact (although Lee Jasper is looking increasingly shaky) the outer wall has started to fall.

Rosemary Emodi, Jasper’s deputy, has quite after being caught out lying to the BBC. When a statement to the Beeb a few days ago read:

"Rosemary Emodi has never visited La Campagne Tropicana and neither has any other representative of the GLA"

It should actually have read:

"Rosemary Emodi has indeed visited La Campagne Tropicana in Nigeria, and in fact was joined by another representative of the GLA. Naturally this trip was paid for by Ms Emodi’s hosts, Kamp Africa, who were under the impression she was there to finalise a link between them and the GLA. Of course no such link had been authorised by the Mayor’s office and Ms Emodi was merely using the missunderstanding with Kamp Afrika to get a free holiday"

Oh dear.