Everyone hates Ken

Even his lawyer apparently. His major line of defense for the Mayor was that his behaviour was unrelated to his office and therefore only brought him into disrepute and not the office of mayor. He compared Livingstone to Jeffrey Archer, David Blunkett and John Profumo as others who had brought themselves but not their office into disrepute.

Poor old David Childs shouldn't consider a jump from solicitor to barrister just yet. The question that sprang to the Reptile's mind immediately also appears to have occurred to David Laverick: all those people resigned, either immediately or eventually. So shouldn't Livingstone?

All I can say is that if I was on trial and saw David Childs walking through the door I'd be asking him to leave the advocacy to someone with a touch of natural ability.