Conservative MP seen manhandling female climate change protester at Mansion House event

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1. Police receive reports of assault after minister grabs climate protester

Source: The Guardian

Police receive reports of assault after minister grabs climate protester

Calls for Mark Field to resign over Mansion House incident while another Tory MP reports abusive messages from party colleague

Kevin Rawlinson
Fri 21 Jun 2019 00.21 BST First published on Thu 20 Jun 2019 21.34 BST

The Conservatives have been plunged into controversy after a video showed a minister grab and manhandle a protester who disrupted the chancellor’s Mansion House speech.

Police began looking into the incident on Thursday night after footage seemed to show Mark Field pushing the female Greenpeace activist against a pillar and grabbing her neck. There were calls for Field to lose his position as a Foreign Office minister. In a statement, he apologised to the woman and said he would refer himself to the Cabinet Office over the incident.

It came as a separate scandal threatened the party as Antoinette Sandbach said she was sent messages by an unnamed fellow Conservative MP demanding she leave the party. Senior Tories condemned the messages and pledged to investigate.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/20/greenpeace-activists-target-philip-hammond-speech-in-climate-protest