1. 1Open letter to leadership contenders , The Guardian , 1999 .
2. 2Ibid.
3. 3Paddy Ashdown , The Ashdown Diaries: Volume Two, 1997-1999 , London, Allen Lane/The Penguin Press, 2001 , p.494 .
4. 4Paddy Ashdown , Citizen's Britain: A Radical Agenda for the 1990s , London, Fourth Estate, 1989 ; Paddy Ashdown,Beyond Westminster: Finding Hope in Britain, London, Simon & Schuster, 1994.
5. 5Paddy Ashdown , The Ashdown Diaries: Volume One, 1988-1997 , London, Allen Lane/The Penguin Press, 2000 , p.50 (entry for 15 June 1988).