With much cajoling and bullying from Lord Ashdown, all were done by last month.
Lord Strathclyde assured Lord Ashdown that ministers were aware of the importance of political factors.
Certainly Lord Ashdown and his predecessors have increasingly often sacked inept or corrupt officials, indeed elected politicians.
Comedian Eddie Izzard and the former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Ashdown are due to address the Yes rally.
In the early 1990s, while European governments dithered, Lord Ashdown was calling for a stronger military intervention in Bosnia.
This prompted accusations of "betrayal" by the former Lib Dem leader Lord Ashdown.
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The deputy prime minister and Lord Ashdown have visited Somerset to launch the Liberal Democrat battle for Somerset County Council.
But, for that one phrase, I'm going to add Lord Ashdown to my list of heroes of this session of Parliament.
Lord Ashdown argues Mr Blair's lack of a firm political creed "gives the impression that he slithers around all over the place".
Sir Mike and others, including former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Ashdown, said Britain has a "moral obligation" to offer the interpreters asylum.
Former party leader Lord Ashdown is to make a speech on Saturday, and current leader Nick Clegg will do a question-and-answer session with activists.
Former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon asked if the government would be focusing its policy on finding a political solution to the conflict.
Nick Clegg and Lord Ashdown joined Somerset MPs in Highbridge to kick off the campaign to regain control of the authority in the 2013 local elections.
Lord Ashdown was not shy to use such powers as he forced through major political, economic and security reforms and helped build up Bosnia's state institutions.
This year's Oxford Debate features journalists Peter Hitchens and Simon Jenkins discussing drugs policy, while former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Ashdown will host a debate on universal values.
And in an impassioned defence of the plans on Monday, former Lib Dem leader Lord Ashdown said constitutional reform was needed to "bridge the dangerous gap between the government and the governed".
The comments are likely to anger Mr Blair, who is thought to have been annoyed that Lord Ashdown unveiled the details of private conversations between the two in the first volume of the diaries.
Former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon - himself a former soldier - said the move would relieve the suffering of the soldiers' relatives but that it was not a "wise" thing to do.
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Lord Ashdown, who is overseeing the 2015 general election campaign, told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show that the party - in a coalition government with the Conservatives since 2010 - had been "courageous in the national interest".
Former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Ashdown disagreed, arguing that public opinion was on the side of reform, and angering some peers with an accusation that the House of Lords has "opposed fundamental reforms" including democratic reforms, throughout its history.
Last night the Lib Dem dissidents included several eminent figures - former leader Lord Ashdown, SDP founder Lady Williams, former SDP leader Lord Maclennan and the former Chair of the Social Security Select Committee (as it then was) Lord Kirkwood.
In contrast to Lord Ashdown, the Bishop of Leicester said that the House would continue to need people with "an independent view" and argued that "it is clear that an elected House will become a creature of the party system".
Dragan Jerinic, editor of Nezavisne Novine, a Banja Luka paper, says the argument is not really about police but about the desire for revenge on the part of Serb politicians who were sacked by Lord Ashdown last year for protecting war-crimes suspects.
Crossbench peer Baroness Hayman, who was elected by peers to serve as the first Lord Speaker from 2006-11, said that it was "possible to have as great a respect for democracy" as did Lord Ashdown without agreeing with what she described as "a rather broad-brush approach".
From there she reported on the profile of party leader Nick Clegg, interviewed Lord Ashdown on the future of the war in Afghanistan and chaired a heated discussion between Eric Pickles and Chris Huhne on the Tory attempts to "love bomb" Lib Dem voters.
The previous Lib Dem leader, Paddy (now Lord) Ashdown, and Tony Blair talked about how Labour and the Lib Dems might ally to keep the Tories out of office for ever.
Any suspicion that our conclusion resulted from secret negotiations between Lord Jenkins, Tony Blair and Paddy Ashdown, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, is unfounded.
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