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Ashdown announced his intention to resign as leader of the Liberal Democrats on 20 January 1999finally departing on 9 August that year after 11 years in the role, to be succeeded by Charles Kennedy. He was knighted ( KBE ) in 2000 and became a life peer as Baron Ashdown of Norton Sub Hamdon in the House of Lords after retiring from the Commons in 2001.
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Ashdown formally announced on November 11, 2011, that he would again seek the Democratic nomination to challenge Orrin Hatch in the 2012 Utah U. S. Senate election.
Ashdown and leader
Over two-thirds of the members, and all the serving MPs, of the Liberal Party joined this party, led first jointly by Steel and the SDP leader Robert Maclennan, and later by Paddy Ashdown ( 1988 – 99 ), Charles Kennedy ( 1999 – 2006 ), Sir Menzies Campbell ( 2006 – 07 ) and Nick Clegg ( incumbent ).
However, in the run-up to the 1997 general election, Labour opposition Tony Blair was in talks with Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown about forming a coalition government if Labour failed to win a majority at the election ; however there was never any need for a coalition to be formed as Labour won the election by a landslide.
" Paddy Ashdown, the leader of the Liberal Democrats during Major's term of office, once described him in the House of Commons as a " decent and honourable man ".
* January 8 – King Bagsecg, Viking leader ( at the Battle of Ashdown )
After service as a Royal Marine and as an intelligence officer for the UK security services, Ashdown was a Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Yeovil from 1983 to 2001, and leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 until August 1999 ; later he was the international High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from 27 May 2002 to 30 May 2006, following his vigorous lobbying for military action against Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell had already ruled out the idea that members of his party would take seats in a Brown cabinet, but, according to the reports, Brown still proceeded to approach Ashdown with the offer.
After the 1997 election, party leader Paddy Ashdown placed Tom Brake in the frontline straight away as a spokesman on the Environment, Transport and the Regions.
In 2001, he was elected as the MP for Yeovil, the seat previously represented by former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown.
During 1992-93 Sanders worked in the office of Paddy Ashdown, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, and organised the ' Beyond Westminster ' Tour.
Whilst not a pact, ahead of the 1997 election Labour Leader Tony Blair and Lib Dem leader Paddy Ashdown set up the Labour-Liberal Democrat joint committee on constitutional reform to discuss devolution in Wales and Scotland, and led to Prime Minister Tony Blair setting up a joint Lib – Lab cabinet committee.
Chatham House has distinguished presidents from each of the three main political parties at Westminster: Sir John Major, former UK Prime Minister, Lord Ashdown, former EU Special Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina and former leader of the Liberal Democrats, and Baroness Scotland, the Shadow Attorney General.
Personalities to own a DW medal are former leader of the Liberal Democrats, Paddy Ashdown, explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, double Olympic gold medallist rower James Cracknell and Rebecca Stephens, the first woman to climb Everest solo.
However since then the seat has always been held by a member of the Liberal Party or their successors, the Liberal Democrats: firstly former leader Paddy Ashdown ( 1983 – 2001 ) and then former Chief Secretary to the Treasury David Laws ( 2001 onwards ).
These included former CBI Director-General Digby Jones who became a Minister of State, and former Liberal Democrats leader Paddy Ashdown who was offered the position of Northern Ireland Secretary ( Ashdown turned down the offer ).
Ashdown and Liberal
In the general election of 1997, for example, 13. 5 million people voted for the Labour Party led by Tony Blair ; 9. 6 million for the Conservative Party, led by John Major, the previous Prime Minister ; and, 5. 2 million for the Liberal Democrat Party led by Paddy Ashdown.
While in the Marines, Ashdown had been a supporter of the Labour Party, but joined the Liberal Party in 1975.
In 1976 Ashdown was selected as the Liberal Party's prospective parliamentary candidate in his wife's home constituency of Yeovil in Somerset, and took a job with Normalair Garrett, then part of the Yeovil-based Westland Group.
Ashdown had long been on his party's social democratic wing, supporting the 1977 Lib-Lab pact, and the SDP – Liberal Alliance.
Ashdown led the Liberal Democrats into two general elections, in 1992 and 1997.
A " Joint Cabinet Committee " ( JCC ) including senior Labour and Liberal Democrat politicians was then created to discuss the implementation of the two parties ' shared priorities for constitutional reform ; its remit was later expanded to include other issues on which Blair and Ashdown saw scope for co-operation between the two parties.
* Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon profile at the site of Liberal Democrats
Beith stayed on as Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats from after the 1992 general election under Ashdown until 2003, and became a Member of the Privy Council in 1992.
In Parliament, Breed was appointed as a Liberal Democrat spokesman on Trade and Industry by Paddy Ashdown in 1997.
After the amalgamation of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party and the formation of the Liberal Democrats he became the new party's Energy spokesman and at the same time became the Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats under the new leadership of Paddy Ashdown.
Paddy Ashdown created a new Shadow Cabinet system and Bruce became the Liberal Democrat Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer.
She was recruited into the then Liberal Party by Paddy Ashdown and was elected a Councillor for both the South Somerset District Council ( 1987 – 1991 ) and Somerset County Council ( 1993 – 1997 ).
Laws had joined the Liberal Democrat back office at the same time as Nick Clegg under the leadership of Paddy Ashdown.
Richard Huggett described himself in the general election as Liberal Democrat Top Choice For Parliament ( leading to Oaten, the official Lib Dem candidate, to use the ballot paper description Liberal Democrat Leader Paddy Ashdown ) and in the by-election as Literal Democrat Mark Here to Win.
Ashdown and Democrats
He worked for the Liberal Democrats nationally and rose to be their Director of Press and Broadcasting under the leadership of Paddy Ashdown and Charles Kennedy.
Ashdown and on
E. H. Shepard drew on the landscapes of Ashdown Forest as inspiration for many of the illustrations he provided for the Pooh books.
Milne once wrote of Ashdown Forest: " In that enchanted place on the top of the forest a little boy and his bear will always be playing ".
In Berkshire, a successful skirmish at the Battle of Englefield on 31 December 870 was followed by a severe defeat at the siege and Battle of Reading by Ivar's brother Halfdan Ragnarsson on 5 January 871 ; then, four days later, Alfred won a brilliant victory at the Battle of Ashdown on the Berkshire Downs, possibly near Compton or Aldworth.
The Times reported on 6 November 1995 that Prince Charles had stated on that day to Tony Blair and Paddy Ashdown, after the funeral of Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, that " Catholics should be able to ascend to the British throne ".
Ashdown claimed the Prince said: " I really can't think why we can't have Catholics on the throne ".
Other Wallaby colonies exist in the UK, including reliable reports from the Fenland on the Norfolk / Lincolnshire border ; and there are a few in Ashdown Forest, Sussex.
Although he was able to re-form his army in time to win a victory at the Battle of Ashdown, he suffered further defeats on 22 January at Basing, and 22 March at Meretun.
The Danes pursued, and on 7 January 871, Æthelred and Alfred defeated the Danes at the Battle of Ashdown.
871 On January 7, they made their stand at Ashdown ( on what is the Berkshire / North Wessex Downs now in Oxfordshire ).
Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, died on 29 December 1986, at Birch Grove, the Macmillan family mansion on the edge of Ashdown Forest near Chelwood Gate in East Sussex.
* Other populations in the United Kingdom that for some periods bred successfully included one near Teignmouth, Devon, another in the Ashdown Forest, East Sussex and one on the island of Bute and Lundy.
The exact location of Ashdown is uncertain, though it is known to be on the Berkshire Downs.
Prior to the establishment of The Office, Virgin Atlantic had its head office in Ashdown House on the High Street in Crawley.
The citizens of Ashdown, as well as those throughout Little River County, came together on the courthouse grounds to celebrate, with Governor Mike Beebe as the guest speaker.
This school burned in 1979, and the district built another school on the east end of Ashdown and called it Ashdown Junior High School.
The exact location of Ashdown is unknown, but it was somewhere on the Berkshire Downs, south of Thame.
In addition to the attack on Ashdown, Wulfhere raided the Isle of Wight in 661.
During the retreat to Dunkirk in May 1940, John Ashdown ignored an order to abandon the Indian troops under his command, instead leading them to the port and on to one of the last ships to leave, without losing a single man.
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