To be in Brighton was certainly to witness some bizarre behaviour.The Prime Minister was ushered in and out of his conference address to the strains of If the Kids are United by Sham 69. An 82-year-old Labour Party veteran and refugee from Nazi Germany was unceremoniously hauled from the auditorium by heavies and detained under anti-terrorism laws for shouting "nonsense" during a speech by the Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw. Another Labour veteran in his eighties, Tony Benn, was subjected, along with many other delegates, to an interminable wait at the conference entrance to get through the accreditation system. He ended the week in hospital after collapsing shortly after Blair's speech.
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