Boris Johnson’s administration in London is being billed as a test bench and launch pad for a Tory government. How’s that working out? Take deputy mayor Ray Lewis’ rapidly unravelling cover story…

However, despite these claims, City Hall now admit that they did not place Ray Lewis under any vetting process themselves.

They also admit that the ‘enhanced’ checks, which are routinely carried out on people working with young people, were not undertaken by City Hall before offering Lewis the job.

You know, we’ve had 11 years of political expediency trumping process and competence. You would have hoped that someone in the Tory high command was taking notes and filing them in a big folder marked ‘Dickheadism to be avoided’.

Taking into account the almost odds on certainty of a Tory landslide at the next general election and the utter amateurism/contempt/chicanery* displayed in Lewis’ appointment, it looks like we could all be in trouble.

* Choose your favourite