Thom Yorke: Tony Blair advisers tried to force me to meet the PM
by Hannah Ellis-Petersen from Environment | The Guardian on (#VQTX)
Radiohead frontman and environmental campaigner has spoken out about the difficulties he faced when asking politicians to acknowledge climate change
Thom Yorke has claimed that advisers to Tony Blair tried to force him to meet the former prime minister in 2003.
The Radiohead singer's comments, which were made in an interview between him and Guardian columnist George Monbiot on the French online magazine Ti(C)li(C)rama, referred back to the time when he was the spokesman for the Big Ask, a climate change campaign by Friends of the Earth.
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