He has always denied using the word pleb but has admitted swearing.

Sir, - A word of support for the Supreme Court judges, from a mere pleb.

Personally, I find calling someone Mr Plod just as offensive as calling someone a pleb.

Then for you, dear pleb, there is the option of the bog-standard dinner table for R20k.

That's royalty, not some jumped-up elected pleb.

There is no disguising the fact that Schubert, prince of musicians, was personally a hopeless little pleb.

Mr Mitchell resigned in October after allegedly calling a Downing Street policeman a "pleb", which he denies.

Overall Deb was particularly unhappy with the result, saying the "pleb tier should really be the royal God tier".

On the flight back, medallists were directed to business class, while Tweddle was ordered to join the also-rans in pleb class.

Toby Rowland, the officer on duty in Downing Street at the time of the altercation, insists Mitchell called him a pleb.

WHY line up for a new iPhone in person like a pleb when you could get your iPad to do it for you?

The Tory Chief Whip denies claims he swore at a policeman on duty outside Downing Street and called him a "pleb".

Owens also claimed that she was branded a "pleb" and overheard male colleagues referring to women golfers as "dykes and lesbians".

EGGS Why settle for simpleton hard boiled eggs or pleb poached eggs when you could have your eggs "Pie Maker Style".

It's interesting, of course, to discuss, as we all did, whether "pleb" is more likely to be an upper-class or a proletarian insult.

The communities secretary claimed he was "very proud to be a pleb" but he had never heard the chief whip use such words.