Lord Neuberger, the Master of the Rolls and one of the three-member panel that made the ruling, watered down his opinion at the request of the Foreign Office's counsel, Jonathan Sumption.
While Wowereit talked from the stage, his shirt unbuttoned and his jacket open, people lined up at the sausage booth, where three SPD members sold the charred wurst stuffed into rolls for 1.50 euro each (at least one German complained that they were too charred).