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Foreign Office Minister Mark Field suspended after grabbing climate protestor

Toby Hill
clock 21 June 2019 •
Protestors stormed the Chancellor's Mansion House speech last night | Credit: Greenpeace
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Protestors stormed the Chancellor's Mansion House speech last night | Credit: Greenpeace

BREAKING: Footage shows Conservative MP Mark Field forcibly removing a female protester from last night's Mansion House dinner

Conservative MP Mark Field has today been suspended from his position as a Minister in the Foreign Office, after footage emerged of him grabbing a female climate change protestor at last night's Mansion...

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