It was the big ethics story of the autumn. And, at first, it seemed quite clear-cut. The chief whip, Andrew Mitchell, furious that the policeman guarding Downing Street wouldn't let him take his bicycle through the main gate, lost his temper and vented his spleen. "Best you learn your place. You don't run this government. You're plebs," the frontbencher reportedly said to the policeman, peppering his sentences with unprintable expletives. Except, it seems, he didn't.
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