There is much that could easily be respected and admired in the Wiki entry for the Andrew Mitchell chap, but any sign of him having grown up as he has got older there is none.
" ...they barricaded themselves in a room while I was left to figure out what was going on...
...Then one of his male aides emerged in tears. He told me again that I had betrayed the party, the trip, the group, and that it didn't matter anyway because I was going to get sued."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9559159/How-Andrew-Mitchell-turned-his-anger-on-me.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Mitchell