I'm Proud of Otis. If Blair Thinks We'll Give in He's Made a Big Mistake ; His Actions Were Utterly Irresponsible but to Understand His Passions, Listen to His Mother, Ferry's Ex-Wife

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THE former Mrs Bryan Ferry woke at 3am yesterday to the sound of voices in her front hall. Lucy Ferry went downstairs, still in her nightclothes, where she found her son Otis, exhausted, jubilant and dressed, like his seven fellow House of Commons invaders, in their police-issue white overalls.

For several minutes, Lucy hugged her oldest child, unable to speak.

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I'm Proud of Otis. If Blair Thinks We'll Give in He's Made a Big Mistake ; His Actions Were Utterly Irresponsible but to Understand His Passions, Listen to His Mother, Ferry's Ex-Wife

'I am very proud of him,' she says. 'To be brave enough to make a point about something over which you feel so passionately is very courageous.' In the hours before dawn, she sat with Otis and the others, who had just been released on bail, watching them drink beer and wonder at the television footage of their raid two days earlier. 'Apart from smelling like polecats, they were fine,' she says. 'But they had no idea of the stir they had caused.' Whatever you think of the rights and wrongs of hun...

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