“Let’s start with the people who left his office and said things that were palpably untrue.”
Also: Meeting Princess Michael. My old friend Simon Burns. Alastair Campbell, my stand-in. And: off to Dubrovnik and “the odd Ann Widdecombe pussy joke”.
The Prime Minister added that the conduct of the relevant police officers was “not acceptable”.
David Davis was among the MPs who strolled over to exchange friendly words with Mitchell. He is seen at Westminster as a vindicated man.
The use of “judge and jury” by the Police Federation turns out to be gloriously self-revelatory. It seems to believe that the appropriate one in this case is…itself.
The Sunday Times reports that “a senior police officer has blown the whistle on what he claims was a conspiracy by Scotland Yard protection officers”.
Last night, it was announced that Chloe Smith and John Randall are stepping down from Government. Here are three quick thoughts about what those two changes mean.
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. Andrew Mitchell's campaign for restoration to the Cabinet went up a gear yesterday afternoon as senior Conservative and Labour MPs piled into the Met Commissioner: Richard Ottoway (Croydon South): "We have a situation where police from the Met appear to have fabricated evidence against a Cabinet Minister; the Met […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter The Sunday Times (£) leads this morning with news that "AT LEAST" ten police officers were involved in a conspiracy to smear Andrew Mitchell. The newspaper reports that the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is now extending its inquiry to uncover the full extent of that conspiracy: "The 10 […]
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. @i-images Andrew Mitchell's piece in today's Financial Times about Britain and the Europe will do nothing to quell rumours that David Cameron will appoint him as an EU Commissioner: I suspect that the former International Development Secretary wrote it with a twinkle in his eye. But either way, the […]
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. The annual newspaper index report by Hanover Communications into media coverage of MPs shows that 12 of the top 20 most-mentioned politicians are Conservatives. The index, which measures newspaper coverage over the last year, shows few Labour frontbenchers have media profiles, with only Ed Balls and Ed Miliband featuring in […]
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