A field day....

Ray Lewis may or may not be guilty of some or all of the things with which he stands accused.

Boris and Dave may or may not have been naive to give him such an honoured position.

What is truly surprising is the way in which critics have gone over the top. The BBC, perhaps fighting to preserve their privileged monopoly position by trying to get the Labour Party back into power, have given the whole issue a prominence which they never gave to Lee Casper, when Mayor Livingstone suspended him for possible misappropriation on a large scale.

The Toady programme this morning, ramming it all home,suggested that it could be years before the Johnson Mayoralty is clean from its present contagion - the BBC again indulging in wishful thinking.

Ray Lewis has protested his innocence, and has resigned to protect the mayoralty. In time he may be cleared, or his guilt confirmed, but to fail to urge people to wait until then because you wish to get in with as much smearing as possible is politics, and not what might be expected from an impartial news broadcaster.

By all means let them ferret about, let them investigate, and let them try to prove that Lewis is guilty, but casting biased propaganda as if it is news is unworthy of them There was little to choose between what they said and what Hazel Blears came out with, which is saying something.