Paddy Ashdown: Last News

A video of a young Liz Truss calling for the monarchy to be abolished has resurfaced on the day she is due to be appointed Prime Minister by the Queen.

"Because then I could give it back when that lying, evil thug Paul Dacre enters the House of Lords," he explained.John was offered a peerage over 20 years ago by former Liberal-Democrat leader, Paddy Ashdown.However, in 1999 he turned it down and joked that he didn’t want to accept the offer as it would mean spending winters in EnglandJohn said: “I turned down a peerage actually.“Paddy was going to offer me one when he ceased to be leader of the Lib Dems, for political services – not because I was a wonderful human being but because I’d helped them a lot.“But I realised this involved being in England in the winter and I thought that was too much of a price to pay," he told The Mirror in 2011.The Fawlty Towers star divides his time between England and sunny California.

offered a peerage by Lib Dem leader Paddy Ashdown in 1999 - he declined because he felt staying in England during the winter months to fulfil his role as a working peer was "too much of a price to pay". The former Beatle turned an OBE down in 2000 - after Paul McCartnery was awarded a knighthood.