Paddy Ashdown is being interviewed next week by Iain Dale for a piece to appear in Total Politics magazine. Iain’s soliciting ideas for questions or topics to cover, so post up your suggestions below.
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“Paddy, quite some time ago I remember you saying that parliament should not be sovereign, the people should be. That sounds like a republican sentiment, do you agree Britain should be a republic?”
Paddy, why are you bothering to be interviewed by Ian Dale and his terrible magazine?
Are you still a vegetarian? Are people surprised to find that such an apparently carnivorous person as yourself is a vegetarian?
What P said.
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