Surely a mistake.

Coffee House is reporting what might be the biggest cock up so far in London politics.

It cites the Londoner diary which claims

RUMOUR reaches the Londoner that the reason Boris Johnson's office failed to pick up on the fact former Deputy Mayor Ray Lewis was not a Justice of the Peace is that it conducted a background check on a different Ray Lewis who is a Justice of the Peace in East London. The former deputy mayor for young people, Ray Lewis, gave the Mayor the impression he was a Justice of the Peace, a fact which the Mayor highlighted at his press conference last Thursday