Police officers grilled over ‘plebgate’ meeting
MPs have quizzed key figures from the police over the plebgate affair, which engulfed politician Andrew Mitchell last year.
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MPs have quizzed key figures from the police over the plebgate affair, which engulfed politician Andrew Mitchell last year.
Three police officers caught up in the Plebgate scandal will be grilled by MPs today about their meeting with Andrew Mitchell as part of the ongoing investigation.
“It wasn’t their poor judgement in talking to the media, but in not telling the truth” – the verdict of one source on the policy apology.
The home affairs select committee has just announced a new star witness at their hearing into plebgate on Wednesday afternoon.
The police commissioner for the West Midlands tells Channel 4 News that the deputy chair of the IPCC was “either wrong or incompetent” over her handling of the “plebgate” affair.
It is rare for a home secretary to get involved in so personal an operational matter, rarer still for the prime minister.. This is a very special episode in British public life and it is not over yet.
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