The Mayor's 'boot camp guru' Ray Lewis today said a series of disciplinarian schools planned by Boris Johnson could prevent a repeat of the riots... more
‘Multicultural London English’ is now recognised as the parallel street language of the young — but how important is it that we can speak properly too, asks broadcaster Lindsay Johns
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Ray Lewis, disgraced former deputy mayor to Boris Johnson, appears on TV tonight using 'tough love' to encourage the long-term unemployed to get back to work... more
By bringing Ray Lewis back to City Hall, Boris Johnson is not just sticking by an old friend: he clearly aims to prove yet again that he can defy political convention... more
There is good news and bad news from the new Office for Budget Responsibility, the body established by the Chancellor to provide independent economic forecasts... more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
The allegations of financial misconduct and harassment now engulfing Deputy Mayor Ray Lewis are a potentially serious setback for Mayor Boris Johnson... more
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
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
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
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
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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