Paddy Ashdown admits affair
- Title
- Paddy Ashdown admits affair
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 5 Feb 1992
- Year of production
- 1992
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- Duration
- 00:09:39
- Description
- Angela Rippon interviews over the telephone Andrew Phillips, from Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown’s solicitors, on the theft of papers from their office revealing Ashdown had a brief extra-marital affair with his secretary of 5 years ago Tricia Howard; Ashdown’s decision to go public; and the High Court injunction placed on the British media preventing them from publishing the story.
- Contributors
- Andrew Phillips; Angela Rippon
- Keywords
- Newspapers; Press; Burglary; Mass media; Paddy Ashdown; Political leaders; Extra-marital sex; Solicitors; Political scandals; High courts; Tricia Howard; Injuctions; Confidentiality (personal data)
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