'Golden ticket-holders' queue to see Blair
Updated on 29 January 2010
As the 80 successful applicants queued to watch Tony Blair at the Iraq inquiry, police were keeping a tight rein on protest outside the conference centre. Rags Martel reports.
Author Toby Litt was one of those who won a ticket in the ballot. He told Channel 4 News: “This does feel like the most important day. It’s Blair’s last chance to convince people that he didn’t lie.
“And either he says what he said before, and people think he’s still lying, or he shifts a bit – and then he looks shifty.”
Stop the War protester Lindsey German complained at police treatment of protesters at the inquiry.
She said: “They’ve got huge numbers of barriers and huge numbers of police, to protect a man that many people in this country think is a war criminal.”
She went on: “We are going to assert our right to protest, and we will be here all day and we will be doing that.”
