“Let sunshine win the day!” declared the new leader of the Conservative Party at the end of his first conference. And then, on the evening when Tory MPs selected the two candidates for the same job, a bloated Tory MP in black tie assaults a woman protesting on behalf of Greenpeace. Theresa May was right yesterday to suspend Mark Field as a Foreign Office minister. Jeremy Hunt is the foreign secretary. Mr Field may be valuable to him as both a prominent Leaver and a supporter of Mr Hunt’s campaign for the leadership, but as Mr Field’s boss, he should have been first out of the traps to condemn this appalling behaviour.

Source: The Times June 21, 2019 23:02 UTC