With much cajoling and bullying from Lord Ashdown, all were done by last month.
"I don't take Paddy Ashdown very seriously, as a commentator or anything else, " he said.
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It helps Mr Ashdown that his partner, Mr Blair, is playing a long game.
Mr Ashdown's view matters because Mr Blair wants close relations with the Lib Dems.
Lord Strathclyde assured Lord Ashdown that ministers were aware of the importance of political factors.
Baroness Shirley Williams urged the conference to realise what Paddy Ashdown's approach had already achieved.
For the Liberal Democrats, Paddy Ashdown congratulated the prime minister on at last crossing the Rubicon.
But grassroots unease about the long-term implications of the Blair-Ashdown axis is also bound to surface.
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Mr Ashdown may know something about Mr Blair's plans that his party critics do not know.
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The West Country is traditionally good for the Lib Dems their leader Paddy Ashdown has his constituency there.
All the recent encomiums for Mr Ashdown reflect on his having increased his party's representation in Parliament.
Certainly Lord Ashdown and his predecessors have increasingly often sacked inept or corrupt officials, indeed elected politicians.
Not even a change of control in Sheffield would produce the centre-left alliance of which Mr Ashdown dreamed.
Under Mr Ashdown, he had been put out to graze in the lowly post of rural affairs spokesman.
In 1988 the Liberals and the SDP voted to merge, and Paddy Ashdown was elected leader in July.
Comedian Eddie Izzard and the former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Ashdown are due to address the Yes rally.
But if Mr Ashdown's unexpectedly early departure persuades him to run, he might be in with a chance.
Writing in The Times this week, Paddy Ashdown, a former pro-consul, urged the West to become engaged again.
Paddy Ashdown, the Lib Dem leader, plainly believes that Mr Blair intends eventually to endorse the Jenkins plan.
Join New Labour on favourable terms before it devours you anyway: that has been Mr Ashdown's unspoken motto.
To Mr Ashdown's chums, doing business with Mr Blair may seem obviously the Lib Dems' best way forward.
Only Mr Ashdown of the three party leaders is willing to say that he will put income tax up.
Keith Ashdown of the group Taxpayers for Common Sense also criticized the bill.
Paradoxically, the Lib Dems' successes may pose problems for Paddy Ashdown, their leader.
Keith Ashdown, the chief investigator for the watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense, is credited with naming the bridge.
Mr Kennedy, wiser, younger and in less of a hurry than Mr Ashdown, can be under no such illusion.
In the early 1990s, while European governments dithered, Lord Ashdown was calling for a stronger military intervention in Bosnia.
MPs will question Paddy Ashdown's wisdom in cosying up to the Blair government.
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