MPs hit out at the police investigation into the Plebgate row, with one saying Andrew Mitchell was a victim of media spin “at the highest level” of the Met, and another suggesting Channel 4 take over.
Friends of Plebgate MP Andrew Mitchell are piling the pressure on Met Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe. Was he the source of leaks to journalists over the scandal?
Friends of Andrew Mitchell are pursuing Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe over whether he leaked details of a Scotland Yard report on Plebgate to journalists.
Former chief whip Andrew Mitchell makes a formal complaint to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) over an alleged leak of the Met police report into the “plebgate” affair.
Former cabinet minister Andrew Mitchell sues The Sun newspaper over the “plebgate” row after it ran a story in which it claims the chief whip swore at police and called them “plebs”.
Our new Dispatches programme on “plebgate”, broadcast at 8pm on Channel 4 tonight, reveals tensions at the highest levels of government over the whole affair.
Andrew Mitchell says he was obstructed in his efforts to see film that appears to contradict police claims about what went on when he was refused exit through the main gates of No.10 on his bicycle.
A female police officer becomes the fourth person arrested over alleged leaks to the media linked to the Andrew Mitchell “plebgate” affair.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission is under-funded and cannot cope with the demands of scrutinising the 43 separate forces in England and Wales, according to the home affairs committee.
Metropolitan Police detectives arrest a third man as part of Operation Alice, the Andrew Mitchell “plebgate” investigation. Political Correspondent Michael Crick reports.
Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood is sharply criticised by MPs for his botched investigation into former chief whip Andrew Mitchell’s “plebgate” row with Downing Street police officers.
A senior civil servant who investigated the “plebgate” affair tells MPs he advised that emails supporting claims Andrew Mitchell swore at police should not be relied upon in determining his fate.
Sir Hugh Orde, president of the Association of Chief Police Officers, tells Channel 4 News the Andrew Mitchell affair is not “evidence of routine or endemic issues around corruption”.
The Metropolitan Police commissioner admits that he had not seen CCTV subsequently revealed by a Channel 4 News and Dispatches investigation when he stood by his officers in the “plebgate” row.
Doubts have been cast over whether Andrew Mitchell called police officers “plebs”, but he has admitted swearing. Former police minister Nick Herbert says that was not a resigning matter.