Louis shows off his green credentials

Shropshire's teenage chocolate sensation, Louis Barnett, has taken his entrepreneurial skills to Westminster to show leading politicians that he has green as well as chocolate-coloured credentials.

Sixteen-year-old Louis watched the weekly dust-up between Gordon Brown and David Cameron at Question Time yesterday and then met the Prime Minister and Tory leader to talk about his business.

Louis also met Commons catering chiefs to explore the possibility of opening up a new outlet for his Chokolit products made at his factory in Bridgnorth.

He was particularly keen to show off his latest chocolate bar called Biting Back, which depicts an orang utan on the wrapping.

Ten pence from every bar sold will go towards charities working to save the orang utan and other primates from extinction.

Louis rejects the use of palm oil in his chocolate products because of the damage being caused by the oil's extraction to organ utan habitats in tropical rainforests.

"An area of rainforest the size of 600 football pitches is wiped out every day of every year. In this country, producers are allowed to call palm oil vegetable oil, so consumers have no idea which product to support," he said.

Louis's MP, Sir Patrick Cormack (South Staffordshire), who arranged the meetings with Mr Brown and Mr Cameron, said: "I think he's a most remarkable young man who has the makings of becoming one of the significant entrepreneurs of the next decade."