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.

This is Tory MP Mark Field, and this should now be a police matter pic.twitter.com/IJnHyWPI1N

— Owen Jones? (@OwenJones84) June 20, 2019

Tory MP Mark Field has apologised for grabbing a protester by the neck and says he feared she may have been armed.

Tory MP Mark Field has apologised for grabbing a protester by the neck and says he feared she may have been armed.