Boris is getting a deserved kicking this afternoon over Ray Lewis’ £20,000 one day-a-week job. In addition to his unpaid position as Ambassador for Mentoring, Ray Lewis is being paid as the London Mayor’s Senior Advisor for Mentoring. Fishy.
Obviously the tin-foil Continuity-Ken brigade are frothing this afternoon, demanding that the Standard splash the story. Discussing the issue with their hack Pippa Crerar, LabourList’s Mark Ferguson, with a new found regard for taxpayer money, scored a spectacular own goal:
@Markfergusonuk Oh don't be such a cynic. Of course we're covering it. In fact I think you'll find we were first to tweet it!
— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) January 8, 2013
@Markfergusonuk Past experience? It was our investigation which forced him to quit in 2008 by revealing he lied about being a magistrate.
— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) January 8, 2013
Heard the one about the paper covering up a story that they broke…
