Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

No—the hon. Gentleman will especially like this bit. ““Of course,”” Mrs. Shephard wrote, ““relations between lobby groups and professional organisations did not always run smoothly. Many Ministers bear the scars of encounters with their enraged customers. Michael Jack””—the right hon. Member for Fylde (Mr. Jack)—““was my talented Minister of State. He had his fair share of upsets with the fishing community. He decided to meet the fishermen beforehand at Brixham and he arrived to find a huge and noisy demonstration. Flowers and eggs were thrown at him and he was covered with a pancake mixture. Nicholas Soames, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary at MAFF, ran into difficulties with the badger conservation lobby.””