Protesters disrupt BP’s annual meeting

BP’s top bosses contended with screaming environmental protesters, a backlash on executive pay and more anger over the company’s record in the Gulf of Mexico at an eventful annual meeting yesterday.

A number of activists were carried from the ExCel centre in London after staging a bizarre demonstration against BP’s attitude towards climate change.

BP’s board was asked by an undercover protester if it had a “spaceship” to allow its members to escape environmental catastrophe before the man and several colleagues played dead on the floor and refused to move. No arrests were made.

Meanwhile, a shareholder said BP gave the impression the board had its “snout in the trough” by awarding chief executive Bob Dudley an annual bonus of £540,000.