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Ex-Lib Dem Leader Paddy Ashdown DEAD aged 77

EX-Lib Dem leader Paddy Ashdown has died aged 77, says his spokesman.

Ashdown revealed he had bladder cancer in November 2018.

“I have known for about three weeks that I am suffering from a cancer of the bladder,” he told Somerset Live. “I’m being effectively and wonderfully looked after by everyone at Yeovil hospital, in whom I have complete confidence.

“We must see about the outcome, which as always with things like this is unpredictable. I’ve fought a lot of battles in my life.”

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Lib Dem leader, Vince Cable, called Ashdown “one of the great British political figures of the past 30 years and the man who built the Lib Dems into a parliamentary force”.

Ashdown started his career in the Armed Forces as a Royal Marine.

He represented the Somerset constituency of Yeovil from 1983 to 2001.

He led the Lib Dems from 1988, after the SDP and Liberal Party merged.

Tim Farron said: “Paddy has been a hero and mentor of mine for many years. He saved the party during its darkest hour and led it to its greatest successes.”

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