The resignation of Boris Johnson's deputy isn't just bad for the Tories. It's bad for politics and fighting youth crime There is a superficially pleasing symmetry about the resignation of mayoral appointments in the Great Wen. A few months ago the right-wing press scalped Ken Livingstone's black man, Lee Jasper, and last week the liberal press bagged Boris Johnson's, Ray Lewis. Major tales of minor Labour scandals are to be replaced by overblown stories of Tory ones, for the moment at any rate. The score is Labour 1, Conservatives 1. Or press 2, politicians 0. Weeellll, we told you so, didn't we? Didn't you read in this very column that Boris was an entertaining cove, but not a serious politician? I could be forgiven for coming over all smug. I could join in with the BBC early-morning radio correspondent and the chairman of...
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