Presumably one of the motivations behind the decision of Police Federation members to try to discredit Andrew Mitchell was an attempt to discredit the government’s wider reforms of and cuts to the police service, which the union representing the force was at the time engaged in a bitter battle with ministers over. But oddly enough, the plotters’ misdemeanours appear to have found them out, with calls now for reform of police disciplinary procedures.
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On Today, former Home Secretary Jack Straw said the Federation had shown a ‘poverty of leadership’:
‘[They] had the idea that if they embroidered the truth – and I put that mildly – then they could get the scalp of a Conservative Cabinet minister of an administration with whom they were in conflict at the time.
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