Convicted terrorist Babar Ahmad has given an extraordinary interview to the BBC in which he admits he supported the Taliban and obfuscates over ISIS. Ahmad also did his best to help his “childhood friend” Sadiq Khan by playing down their relationship. With mixed results.

“I remember every Saturday he used to be standing at a stall for the Labour Party on Tooting high-street. If I’d see him I’d just go up to him and shake his hand. So he’s just someone that I knew that I’d just see walking through the streets… [Since release from prison] I was travelling home one night on the tube with my lawyer I just bumped into him I shook his hand.”

Khan refused to go on to the Daily Politics to explain his friendship with Ahmad today…