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Manchester, England. 24th June 2007. As Tony Blair hands over to Gordon Brown at an Emergency Labour Party Conference in Manchester, thousands of anti-war protesters march past the conference venue at the Bridgewater Hall. Blair was forced to announce his resignation after the uproar over his failure to call for a ceasefire in Lebanon last year. Two ministers resigned from his government in protest, with the possibility of more to follow if he did not announce his intention to stand aside before the end of the present Parliamentary term. The unrelenting pressure from the anti-war movement thus forced Blair out of office--effectively a self-imposed impeachment. In this clip. the leaders of the Stop the War Coalition (StWC) and Military Families Against War (MFAW) hand a letter addressed to Gordon Brown to a Labour Party official calling for a radical change of policy and an immediate withdrawal of British troops from Afghanistan and Iraq. MFAW leader, Rose Gentle, and StWC national chair, Andrew Murray, are seen handing over the letter. Rose Gentle requests a meeting with Gordon Brown on behalf of the Military Families. Blair had consistently refused to see them. The answer was evasive and non-commital.