Labour

Mitchell resignation shows Cameron profoundly weak and out of touch - Dugher

Michael Dugher MP, Labour's shadow cabinet office minister said:

“After weeks in complete denial, Andrew Mitchell has finally bowed to public pressure. What people will want to know is why, when the entire country could see that what Andrew Mitchell did was wrong, the Prime Minister totally failed to act. David Cameron is left looking profoundly weak and totally out of touch, doing everything he could to hold on to Andrew Mitchell only for his Chief Whip to bow to the inevitable given the understandable public anger. There is a pattern of behaviour: an out of touch high handed government where the Chief Whip can insult the police as plebs and the Chancellor thinks he has a right to sit in first class without paying the fare. This Tory Government day by day show they think it’s one rule for them, another for everyone else.”