Mark Field suspended as UK minister after grabbing climate protester by neck
Police investigate reports of assault as video shows Field forcefully removing woman
Mark Field has been suspended as a Foreign Office minister after a video showed him pushing a female Greenpeace activist against a pillar and grabbing her neck while she protested at the chancellor’s Mansion House speech.
Police are investigating third-party reports of assault made against Field, who has since apologised to the protester. The MP for the Cities of London and Westminster said he felt threatened when the protester went past him and was worried she might have been armed.