The Labour party issued a statement on behalf of Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper condemning the reports that the Government chief Whip Andrew Mitchell earlier today:
"These are appalling reports. No one should treat police officers or public servants in this way. And the idea that a Cabinet Minister could behave like this towards police officers doing their job is an utter disgrace. It tells you all you need to know about this out of touch Government and its attitude to public servants.
"Downing Street clearly have a lot of questions to answer. They must make clear exactly what happened, including what was said and whether the deeply offensive language reported was used. How can a Chief Whip hope to do his job or instill respect when he behaves like this and can't even keep his cool?"However the release seems to been withdrawn as where the above text was the page now says:
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