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He admitted swearing at officers but denied calling them "plebs".

Somewhere outside this room is the real world, where finery and foppishness won’t save these characters from an uprising of the plebs.

Mr Mitchell admitted using bad language towards a Downing Street police officer but denied calling him a "pleb".

And he asked when the prime minister would apologise for having "one rule for him and his chums and another for the rest of us plebs".

Reader Tyler Hogan responded with a really sharp comment, which he gave me permission to share here: This goes further than “managerial class wants to remind plebs who’s in power.”