Blair's Response to Shooting in Subway

PM Blair after the shooting in the Stockholm tubes of an innocent man by the police:

"'We are desperately sorry for the death of an innocent person. I understand entirely the feelings of the young man's family. But we also have to understand that the police are doing their job in very, very difficult circumstances and it's important that we give them every support,' Blair told a news conference at his Downing Street office.

'Had the circumstances been different and for example this had turned out to be a terrorist and the police had failed to take that action they would have been criticized the other way,' he said."