"Best You Learn Your Place"

I remember Andrew Mitchell as a good friend of St Helena when he was Secretary of State for International Development. He should have been left there instead of being made Chief Whip, which seems to bring out the worst in everyone.

Mitchell is abusive to bobbies and David Mellor is abusive to cabbies, but it is Labour that is allegedly the enemy of what those making the charge are still quaint enough to call "the lower middle classes".

For what Mitchell has always admitted, anyone else would rightly have been given a night in the cells. That probably happens thousands of times per week, and certainly hundreds. Frontline public service workers deserve respect, even if only one category of them can arrest you.

The judge said that the policeman "had not the wit" to have made it up, so found in his favour. "There really are no winners here..."

Mitchell is obviously a close friend, and is said to be a close ally, of David Davis. If he is indeed the latter, though, then how come he has never, so far as I can tell, joined in any of Davis's rebellions, such as over Syria, or over Data Retention and Investigatory Powers?

If UKIP does not win Sutton Coldfield, then it will stand exposed as purely a vehicle for re-electing Conservative incumbents whose careers had been going nowhere.

But this is Labour's chance to offer Birmingham another MP who is as sound on the EU as Gisela Stuart is, who is at least as sound on marriage as Khalid Mahmood is, and who is as sound on everything as Roger Godsiff is.