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IT WAS perhaps two weeks before the mass demonstration of February 15 that those of us organising began to ask: could it be a million strong?
We had always dismissed such predictions before but now it was becoming clear that this mobilisation was going to be very, very big indeed.
On the day it exceeded even those expectations, with an estimated 1.5 to two million in London, around 80,000 in Glasgow where Tony Blair was attending the Scottish Labour Party conference, and hundreds of smaller events around the country for those unable to make the journey to the big demonstrations.
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