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'Our Obama moment will be electing a black Mayor'

02.11.09
Britain will experience the 'Obama effect' in full when a black man or woman becomes Mayor of London, according to one of the country's leading playwrights... more

Feltham Young Offenders Institute is a badge of honour, it’s more of a test than GCSEs

20.10.09
A Standard investigation reveals how Europe's biggest young offender institution is seen as 'a holiday camp' ... more

Boris picks major as youth envoy to tackle gang crime

08.01.09
Boris Johnson has finally appointed an ambassador for young people to replace his disgraced deputy mayor Ray Lewis... more

Ray Lewis: My assassins have not heard the last of me

18.11.08
Disgraced Boris aide Ray Lewis talks for the first time about why he quit as deputy mayor — and how the shockwaves from the affair have led to a funding crisis at his inspirational academy for troubled youngsters... more

Boris Johnson aide takes the blame for failure to vet Lewis

24.07.08
Boris Johnson's former chief of staff has taken the full blame for failing to vet disgraced deputy mayor Ray Lewis... more

'Pimps' forced me to quit, claims Ray Lewis

17.07.08
The disgraced former deputy mayor Ray Lewis has broken his silence to effectively accuse his detractors of behaving like "pimps" in forcing him to quit... more

Ray Lewis is still our best hope to beat knife crime

14.07.08
Whatever errors the former deputy mayor made, he understands young people and has good, clear solutions. We will all suffer if his approach is discredited... more

Sex scandal woman begs Lewis: Tell the truth and say sorry

11.07.08
The woman at the centre of a City Hall sex scandal pleaded with disgraced former deputy mayor Ray Lewis to stop lying and say sorry for his past behaviour... more

Mayor's team 'too busy' on election to vet deputy

11.07.08
Boris Johnson's team failed to vet disgraced deputy mayor Ray Lewis thoroughly because they were focused more on campaigning than on making detailed preparations to run City Hall... more

Ray Lewis 'cornered woman in hotel room and ordered her to strip off'

10.07.08
Disgraced former deputy mayor Ray Lewis is facing a new accusation of sexual misconduct, the Evening Standard can reveal... more

Meet Boris's £75m Prince of Darkness

10.07.08
In his first interview, wealthy businessman Tim Parker reveals what made him give up the boardroom to become the Mayor's chief of staff for the nominal salary of just £1... more

Mayor 'could still take advice from disgraced deputy'

09.07.08
Boris Johnson may still work with his disgraced former deputy mayor - who had to quit after falsely claiming he was a magistrate... more

Bishops speak out over Ray Lewis affair

08.07.08
The two bishops at the centre of the Ray Lewis affair speak for the first time about their reluctance to reveal to Boris the past of the man he'd made his deputy mayor ... more

Tory bid to insulate Cameron from scandal

07.07.08
Senior Conservatives are holding an urgent review of the Ray Lewis affair in a bid to protect David Cameron from similar scandals if he wins power... more

Boris and the blunders in the war on knives

07.07.08
Looking back at last week, it's hard to say what was the more depressing: the no fewer than six people fatally stabbed in London, one of them the year's 18th teenager to die by the knife; or the enforced departure of the man who might have done something about it... more

Boris braced for more deputy sleaze claims

04.07.08
Boris Johnson is braced for more damaging allegations about the background of his deputy mayor Ray Lewis... more

I lent Ray £29,000 - and all he gave me was a handwritten IOU

04.07.08
A former parishioner of Ray Lewis told how the deputy mayor left Britain with £29,000 of her money leaving her with just a handwritten IOU note... more

Comment: Questions for Ray Lewis

04.07.08
The allegations of financial misconduct and harassment now engulfing Deputy Mayor Ray Lewis are a potentially serious setback for Mayor Boris Johnson... more

A beacon of hope and a fight for survival

04.07.08
Boris Johnson is facing his first crisis as London mayor with the allegations of financial irregularities against his new deputy, Ray Lewis... more

Bishop U-turn on Boris Johnson aide

04.07.08
The Church of England has admitted it was wrong to claim Boris Johnson was warned in person over his disgraced former deputy... more

Conflict of interest fear in Mayor's probe

04.07.08
Former chief of the Prison Service Martin Narey has been appointed to investigate allegations into Boris Johnson's deputy mayor... more

Boris Johnson defends deputy amid claims of fraud and sex abuse

03.07.08
Boris Johnson has taken the extraordinary step of defending one of his deputy mayors from 'malicious smears'... more

Deputy mayor who takes a tough line

30.05.08
Ray Lewis has an established record dealing with young people who have been written off by society... more

Victims' parents join City Hall summit to search for solution

30.05.08
The parents of murdered schoolboys Kiyan Prince and James Smartt-Ford attended a summit at City Hall to look at long-term measures to tackle knife crime... more

A new breed of leaders can tackle knife culture

29.05.08
In the wake of another fatal stabbing, fresh thinking by black conservatives is reshaping the old approach to the growing problem of youth violence... more

Mayor aide holds knife summit

27.05.08
London chiefs are to hold a knife crime summit after a weekend of violence... more

Ray Lewis: 'The questions parents must answer'

13.05.08
Boris Johnson's new youth crime supremo Ray Lewis described the latest spate of knife attacks and murders in the capital as a "rising onslaught"... more

Knife scanners on streets

13.05.08
Scotland Yard announces a new operation to curb knife crime in London following the daylight murder of a 22-year-old man in Oxford Street... more

Only talking to the gangs will stop kids killing kids

07.05.08
In his first interview since this week becoming Boris's Deputy Mayor for Young People, ex-prison boss Ray Lewis promises a revolution to turn around London's epidemic of violence... more

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