[gynn]

What do we all think of Andrew Mitchell's outburst at the policeman who stopped him taking his bicycle through the main gates at the end of Downing Street?


If he DID say those words, although he deserves condemnation, it is the sort of thing that can be resolved with a fulsome apology, and an appeal that he was talking in the heat of the moment, and he didn't really mean it.

Mr Mitchell acually denies saying those words, and as a senior Government figure, his integrity must be beyond question.

However, I understand that the officer in question has confirmed that those were his EXACT words. And I think I trust the words of a police officer over those of a party politician.

So his position is untenable. Not because of the words he used in the heat of the moment, but because of his subsequent lying to try and save his skin.