Ever since Winston Churchill coined the phrase, politicians have extolled the “special relationship” between the United ...

Nigel Farage is coming for Sir Keir Starmer. The Reform UK leader has hounded Tory prime ministers throughout his career but ...

Fresh from raising £1 million for Reform UK at Mayfair club Oswald’s, party treasurer Nick Candy told guests he is now planning a summer festival for thousands of supporters at the Duke of Marlborough ...

This has echoes of the “pavement politics” pioneered by the former Lib Dem leader Paddy Ashdown and of No 10 chief of staff Morgan McSweeney’s “potholes strategy” (which helped Labour defeat the BNP ...

Sir Edward Davey weaponised the Buckingham Palace pommes de terre duchesses. Lib Dem leader Sir Ed summoned the world’s press to a small, overheated room near London ’s Euston railway terminus to ...

was less attractive than working as the economics ­adviser to the then senior Liberal Democrat team of Paddy ­Ashdown and Alan Beith.

Paddy Ashdown managed to secure the highest number of MPs for the Liberal Democrats since 1929 at the 1997 contest, almost doubling the number of Lib Dem MPs from 26 to 46.

She worked for the Liberal Democrats from 1996- 2000, and was Paddy Ashdown’s press secretary during his last two years as leader of the party. She was founding Editor of The Day, the first daily news ...

Lord George Robertson and Lord Paddy Ashdown. In 2013 he co-edited Influencing Tomorrow: Future Challenges for British Foreign Policy with Douglas Alexander M.P., the Shadow Foreign Secretary. He also ...

One of the many surprises in Paddy Ashdown’s fascinating and fast-moving account of the wartime Resistance in the Bordeaux area is its highly improbable hero. A tiny, unprepossessing figure, ...