Speaking on Radio 4's Any Questions on Friday evening, shortly after the Police Federation in West Mercia called on Mitchell to resign after a meeting in his Sutton Coldfield constituency, Hammond said: "We've now got other people who were not involved in the incident who seem to be trying to hijack this issue now and take it forward for their own purposes.
Philip Hammond, the defence secretary, accused the Police Federation of attempting to hijack the issue.
Because over the last few years the coal industry has been trying to hijack the issue of energy poverty by telling the world that the only way the poorest nations can pull themselves out of poverty is by purchasing lots of their product.
Every week a copy of The New Yorker would arrive at our house on Long Island, wrapped in a brown wrapper upon which the (I thought) disingenuously modest label NEWSPAPER was printed, and I would hijack the issue before my dad came home from work in order to continue an education that was, then, more important to me than the one I was getting in school.
But amid attempts by the far-right to hijack the issue to drum up hostility towards refugees, the political mainstream has pushed back, cautioning that anti-Semitism pre-existed the recent migrant influx and has deep roots across the spectrum of society.
Presently, identity theft is the biggest threat, followed by brand hijacking and issues with privacy.
Mr. McInnis's hijacks the issue to serve other goals.
"Jan Brewer and Joe Arpaio are hijacking the issue and damaging the Republican party brand," Mr. Bailey said, referring to Arizona's governor and the hard-line sheriff of Maricopa County.
Along the way, Republican conservatives have become profoundly disillusioned while accusing Democrats, who are themselves not entirely satisfied, of hijacking the issue.
The rhetorical skirmishing has become increasingly heated during that time, with pipeline opponents accusing State of pandering to industry while supporters charge anti-oil activists with hijacking the issue to further their cause.
