Last week, in his Radio London interview with Vanessa Feltz, Mayor Johnson said many interesting things of which his aspiration to make London a wi-fi city captured most media attention. It's an excellent idea, and he could make an immediate start at City Hall itself (he wrote, with feeling). But as the grand launch of his youth strategy approaches - November 3rd, and no messing - I was more intrigued by his warm endorsement of "my friend Ray Lewis in east London."
Lewis, as we know, became obliged to resign after allegations of past misconduct surfaced and he was found not to be a JP as he'd claimed. So will Lewis's Young Leaders Academy now be a beneficiary of Mayor Johnson's welcome drive to tackle youth disaffection? Is the ground being prepared to bring him back into the mayoral fold in some way, as Tim Parker had hinted he might be before following Lewis out of door? My limited inquiries into this have so far proved inconclusive. I'm working on it, though.
