James McGrath, a senior adviser to Boris Johnson was shown the door by the new Mayor after suggestions that his comments advising black people who didn't want to live in London they could "go back home" were considered to be slightly less than sensitive.

Now, Ray Lewis, a key aide to London Mayor Boris Johnson (who likes London so much he lives in the London borough of... errm, Milton Keynes) and who has responsibility for boot camps young people and opportunity, may have one or maybe two questions to answer about his own youth.

Will Boris be so swift with the axe? Will Andrew Gilligan leave his slime trail in his wake as he crawls for scandal? We wait with breath baited.