Boris Johnson has dropped the Narey inquiry into Ray Lewis. I can understand the argument that taxpayers money shouldn't be spent investigating someone who is no longer Deputy Mayor. It is worth noting, however, that this implicitly means that Boris has reversed the statement he made on Friday which was that he would reinstate Lewis as Deputy Mayor if he was proved to be innocent of the charges made against him.
I suspect that this latest development may have been hastened by the further revelation that Lewis must have known that the Church had suspended his right to be a minister, given that he appealed against the decision.
I think Boris' latest decision is welcome in human terms for Ray Lewis, who should be allowed to get on with his youth work at grassroots level. I don't think he or his family deserves any further pain or embarrassment regarding allegations if they are in the sort of twilight zone between:
a) Allegations which ought to be taken to the police
and
b) Allegations which would be serious enough to preclude someone from being a Deputy Mayor.
Having said all that, I can't help but thinking (because I am a cynic, after all) that there was one very powerful motivator in Boris' decision to drop the inquiry. That is, that he was starting to have nightmares (the shots of him at the Wimbledon Men's finals suggested that he had some missed sleep) about the cleanliness of the washing which would have emerged from a full inquiry into the past of his recently ex-Deputy Mayor for Young People.
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