Paddy Ashdown Articles

Time Labour learned the difference between enemies and adversaries —Political turning points are not always dramatic. Sometimes they are signalled by the slow, sad note of a deflating balloon. So it was with the end of Labour and Liberal Democrat cooperation after the...

With the Tories dancing to the United Kingdom Independence party’s tune and the Liberal Democrats losing deposits in virtually every by-election of this parliament, only Labour can make the bold, progressive case for Britain's future at the heart of Europe – and we...

It’s hard to think of a way that Nick Clegg could make himself more unpopular. Yet he seems to have found one. With every passing day, as more information about allegations of sexual harassment at the top of the Liberal Democrat hierarchy leak out, Clegg’s excuses for...

It’s hard to imagine now, but when the Queen last stood before parliament, it seemed all too easy to imagine that the Coalition would cast Labour into perpetual opposition; that David Cameron and Nick Clegg had succeeded where Tony Blair and Paddy Ashdown had failed,...