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There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.

Paddy Ashdown

History teaches us these lessons for the interveners: leave your prejudices at home, keep your ambitions low, have enough resources to do the job, do not lose the golden hour, make security your first priority, involve the neighbours.

Paddy Ashdown

Paddy Ashdown

Paddy Ashdown

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Born: February 24, 1941

Died: December 22, 2018 (aged 77)

Bio: Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon usually known as Paddy Ashdown, was a British politician and former diplomat who served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 until August 1999.

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The Ashdown diaries (2000)

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