Lord Paddy Ashdown at ‘Crisis in Saudi Arabia: War, Succession and the Future’ conference

Address by Lord Paddy Ashdown at MEMO’s ‘Crisis in Saudi Arabia: War, Succession and the Future’ conference  held in London on November 18, 2017.

Voted leader of the Liberal Democrats in 1988, Lord Paddy Ashdown was appointed as a Privy Councillor on 1 January 1989. He stood down as the leader of the party in 1999 and retired from the Commons in 2001. Lord Ashdown was awarded the GCMG in the 2006 New Year’s Honours List, for his work in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has authored seven books including “Citizen’s Britain, Beyond Westminster, Vol I and II” of his published diaries.