Paddy Ashdown admits affair
- Title
- Paddy Ashdown admits affair
- Genre
- Speech
- TX Date
- 6 Feb 1992
- Year of production
- 1992
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- Duration
- 00:00:34
- Description
- William Garnett, lawyer for Tricia Howard, former secretary to Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdowm, reads a statement on his client’s behalf criticising newspaper handling of their extra-marital affair 5 years ago. Follows Ahdown being forced to reveal the affair after papers on it were stolen from his solicitors’ office and offered to newspapers.
- Contributors
- William Garnett
- Keywords
- Newspapers; Mass media; Liberal Democrats; Paddy Ashdown; Political leaders; Extra-marital sex; Right to privacy; Political scandals; Tricia Howard
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LBC/IRN, "Paddy Ashdown admits affair". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0000800252011 (Accessed 15 Jul 2025)