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Andrew Mitchell, the Conservative chief whip, resigned, still denying that he referred to police as ‘plebs’ for refusing to allow him to cycle through the main gate to Downing Street three weeks ago. The Chancellor, George Osborne, was caught in a first-class carriage with a standard-class ticket. One of his aides paid £160 for an upgrade, saying that the Chancellor couldn’t possibly travel in standard class. The Prime Minister said that energy companies would be put under a duty to make sure that their customers were on the lowest-possible tariff, but the plan lasted only three hours. The working population rose by 212,000 to just under 30 million, the highest number ever recorded. Lord Blair, former commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, called upon the public to boycott the first elections for police commissioners, due on 15 November. David Cameron said, in a speech on crime policy, that ‘retribution is not a dirty word’.
BBC news channels were preoccupied with the story of how the BBC programme Newsnight failed to report accusations that the late disc jockey Jimmy Savile allegedly abused underage girls on BBC premises.
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