Liberal Democrats frontbench team led by Paddy Ashdown, who was party leader from 1988 to 1999. Initially known as a frontbench team, the Lib Dems began...

John Durham Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, GCMG, CH, KBE, PC (27 February 1941 – 22 December 2018), better known as Paddy Ashdown, was a British...

appointed as Acting Leader of the Liberal Democrats following the resignation of Jo Swinson. Davey announced his first frontbench team as Acting Leader in January...

House of Commons and the Dáil Éireann. Frontbench team of Pat Rabbitte Frontbench team of Eamon Gilmore Frontbench team of Enda Kenny Frontbench team of Gerry...

the Leader of the Liberal Democrats appoints a frontbench team of members of Parliament (MPs), peers in the House of Lords, members of the Scottish...

using the Alternative Vote preference system. The election was won by Paddy Ashdown, who served as leader until his stepping down in 1999. The campaign...

list that follows is the frontbench team led by Swinson in 2019. Swinson announced her first frontbench team in August 2019. Of 14 MPs, Norman Lamb and...

McNally is married with two sons and one daughter. Liberal Democrat Frontbench Team "Youth Justice Board website". Archived from the original on 7 February...

The list that follows is the Frontbench Team led by Nick Clegg from 2007 to 2010, before the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives formed a coalition government...

Farron succeeded Nick Clegg as Leader of the Liberal Democrats on 29 July 2015, unveiling his Frontbench Team shortly afterwards. Farron conducted his...

adopting their present name just over a year later. Under the leadership of Paddy Ashdown and later Charles Kennedy, the party grew during the 1990s and 2000s...

the principal centre of operations and offices of the British Liberal Democrats. As of January 2023, the current headquarters of the party are located...

following the resignation of Paddy Ashdown as Leader of the Liberal Democrats. There were five candidates and all members of the party were balloted using...

according to Paddy Ashdown's The Ashdown Diaries. Ashdown, a strong proponent of a Lib–Lab coalition, said that from Blair's point of view, in order...

Democrats Frontbench Team/Shadow Cabinet led by Vince Cable, who was acting leader between 15 October and 18 December 2007, following the resignation of Menzies...

against Paddy Ashdown in the first leadership election in 1988, an election which Ashdown won by a large margin. Beith stayed on as Deputy Leader of the Liberal...

72% membership turnout. Campbell promoted many younger MPs to his frontbench team including former MEP Nick Clegg as Home Affairs spokesperson and 26-year-old...

Maclennan of Rogart, PC (26 June 1936 – 18 January 2020) was a British Liberal Democrat politician and life peer. He was the last leader of the Social...

prospect of a Labour government and comparatively little about a Liberal government, even though it could have plausibly presented an experienced team of ministers...

of Commons in 1983, and after the Alliance parties merged, became president of the Liberal Democrats and, following the resignation of Paddy Ashdown in...

Democrats Frontbench Team/Shadow Cabinet led by Charles Kennedy, who was Party leader from 1999 to 2006. The Party began to refer to its Frontbench Team as a...

Help Us: Member of Parliament, 2004, Cherrytree Books, ISBN 978-1842345467 Liberal Democrat Conference Liberal Democrat frontbench team Serving alongside...

Scott Steel, Baron Steel of Aikwood, KT, KBE, PC (born 31 March 1938) is a retired Scottish politician. Elected as Member of Parliament for Roxburgh,...

the Liberal Democrats. Following the establishment of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) by the 'Gang of Four' (Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers, Shirley...

group of prominent British Liberal Democrat politicians and edited by David Laws and Paul Marshall in 2004. Three contributors later became leaders of the...

European Parliament in the East Midlands constituency; the following year, Paddy Ashdown was first to tip him as a politician to watch. On his election in 1999...

follows is the Liberal Democrats Frontbench Team/Shadow Cabinet led by Menzies Campbell from 2006 to 2007. Leader of the Liberal Democrats – Sir Menzies...

European integration and a decentralised state while rejecting the possibility of trade unions being overly influential within industrial relations. The SDP...

Rodgers of Quarry Bank, PC (born 28 October 1928) is a British politician and life peer. As a Labour Party member of Parliament, he served as Secretary of State...

LGBTQ portal Libertarianism portal London portal Liberal Democrat frontbench team "Biography - Simon Hughes". Simon Hughes. Archived from the original...