Philip Hammond Mansion house speech: Tory MP tackles protestor (Image: Twitter/@PaulBrandITV)
Mark Field, a Foreign Office Minister, made the intervention after Mr Hammond was interrupted. Greenpeace UK said 40 of its activists had targeted the event. There are calls on social media for Mr Field to sacked from the Government, and for the police to investigate.
Footage from the venue shows the Minister stand up and grapple with a female protestor wearing a red dress.
During the altercation she is pushed into a pillar, before being escorted out of the room by Mr Field who keeps his hands on her neck.
Greenpeace said its supporters, who wore red sashes emblazoned with the slogan “climate emergency”, had been planning to deliver their own speech.
Emergency alarms can be heard in the background during the incident.
Reacting to the footage Labour MP Lisa Nandy said: “This is horrifying.”
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