Ken Livingstone has had his four week suspension from office quashed in the High Court.

The London mayor won his appeal against the sentence on Thursday.

Livingstone had been banned from office by the local government Adjudication Panel over alleged anti-Semitic remarks to a Jewish newspaper reporter.

But High Court judge Mr Justice Collins said the panel should not have taken such drastic action.

"I have made it clear the suspension will be quashed whatever I decide on whether the panel's finding was correct," he said.

Livingstone likened the Evening Standard's Oliver Finegold to a "concentration camp guard" after the reporter claimed he was doing his job by questioning the mayor after a party.

The mayor was found to have brought his office into disrepute but argued that the comments were made in a private capacity.

The sentence was suspended while he undertook the appeal and will now not be served.