Our friend Kel Currah from GCAP (the world movement to make poverty history) was lucky enough to go to Merkel and Blair’s meeting yesterday, where they accepted our Voices Against Poverty petition. Here’s his firsthand account of what happened…

”Sunday morning and I thought it was time to head south back to Berlin. But it seemed that Tony Blair had planned a surprise visit to see Chancellor Merkel prior to the G8 and they agreed to meet with GCAP in Germany for a symbolic presentation of the Voices Against Poverty petition. This led to a hectic 24 hours for us GCAP campaigners preparing two large ’speech bubbles’ to give to Blair and Merkel when they arrived.