Mandelson: say it don't throw it

Link to the article: Channel 4

Last Modified: 06 Mar 2009
By: Tom Clarke, Victoria Macdonald

Lord Mandelson calls an attack an "adolescent stunt" thanking the protester for helping to put the government's low carbon economy plans on the map.

The business secretary said he "would rather people said it to my face than throw it" after he was splattered with green custard by an environmental protester as he arrived at a conference to promote green industry.

MPs said the low carbon route was the best way of helping the country recover from recession, but are ministers living up to their green rhetoric?