Mandelson: say it don't throw it
Updated on 06 March 2009
Lord Mandelson calls an attack an "adolescent stunt" thanking the protestor 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 protestor 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?
Security concerns?
Ministerial security is being reviewed after the business secretary Lord Mandelson was splattered with custard by an environmental protestor.
Our political correspondent Victoria Macdonald reports.
