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WATCH: Conservative MP Mark Field shoves a protestor against a pillar then grabs her by her neck and shoves her out of the Mansion House dinner after climate change protestors interrupted the banquet.
Think Mark Field will face some serious questions about the way he handled this.
In this longer version of the video, you can see the woman apparently posing no immediate threat as she passes behind Mark Field. He marches her out of the room by her neck. I wasn’t there, so I can’t say she didn’t pose a risk, but it looks heavy handed.
Mark Field is currently Foreign Office Minister for Asia and the Pacific. Before becoming an MP he was, erm, a solicitor.
Which also means Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt is his boss. An interesting question for him tomorrow in his first day campaigning for the vote of Tory members... should Mark Field resign?
Goes without saying we have tried to contact Mark Field to hear his account of events. There are always two sides to a story etc. Let’s see what he has to say, as we are only going by one short clip.
One last thought on this... if ever there was an image that sums up the Conservative Party’s disconnect with the younger generation right now it’s a man in black tie at an elite dinner grabbing a climate change protestor by her neck.
