Paddy Ashdown admits affair
- Title
- Paddy Ashdown admits affair
- Genre
- Press conference; Speech
- TX Date
- 5 Feb 1992
- Year of production
- 1992
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- Duration
- 00:01:56
- Description
- Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown admits in a press statement at the House of Commons that he had a brief extra-marital affair with his former secretary Tricia Howard 5 years ago following documents revealing the affair being stolen from his solicitors.
- Contributors
- Paddy Ashdown
- Keywords
- Paddy Ashdown; Political leaders; Extra-marital sex; Political scandals; Tricia Howard
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LBC/IRN, "Paddy Ashdown admits affair". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0000800252003 (Accessed 30 Apr 2025)