The rumours yesterday that Mitchell was set to quit on the eve of Dave’s speech unsurprisingly turned out to be rubbish, but he’s by no means out of the woods yet. Many are predicting a resignation before the end of the week:

Is Andrew Mitchell dead man walking? Cabinet ministers openly talking with each other about how to persuade him to quit at Spectator party

— Andrew Neil (@afneil) October 10, 2012

One of them told Guido that a whip’s best weapon to use on unruly rebels was telling them “you’re embarrassing the leader and the party”. “Not as much as you chief…”