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Mr Clegg has gained the support of former leader Lord Ashdown and MP Steve Webb, who had been expected to mount a leadership bid of his own.

Former leader Lord Kinnock has insisted that Mr Corbyn would require the support of 20 % of MPs and MEPs to stand.

Anyone who stands in his way, from the prime minister to the Labour leader Ed Miliband and grandees in his own party such as the former leader Lord Steel of Aikwood, can expect a withering rebuke from Clegg.

Former leader Lord Ashdown told the Today programme: «Here is the question, you will have a party in power that is rabidly anti-European (in the Conservative party).

Meanwhile former leader Lord Kinnock also piped up last night to demand reassurance that no MPs will face reselection battles.

Not exact matches

Better known to many as «Lord Coe,» the IAAF's new leader is a former British track superstar who won four Olympic gold medals in the 1980s.

Carney's forceful letter to Jenkin comes the day after former Conservative leaders Lord Howard and Iain Duncan Smith launched an aggressive attack on the Remain camp, calling out its «startling dishonesty» and the «woeful failure» of the Bank of England to present a fair economic argument.

Also at the service were Better Together leader Alistair Darling, Scottish secretary Alistair Carmichael and former Liberal leader Lord Steel.

Yonder among the delegates to the left is Lord Balfour, former secretary for Scotland in the British Cabinet and a leader in church and state.

They also criticised the Anglican leader's response to a review by Lord Carlisle of Berriew which found failings in how the Church of England responded to a claim the former Bishop of Chichester abused a girl - only known as Carol - during the 1950s.

«It's not something she plans to do or wishes to do,» a Number 10 source told the BBC, in response to a call by former Tory leader Lord Hague.

The commission is led by the ex-Nato chief Lord Robertson and the former Lib Dem leader Lord Ashdown.

He shared platforms during the campaign with former Liberal Democrat Leaders Lord Ashdown and Charles Kennedy, Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader Simon Hughes, the Green Party Leader Caroline Lucas and Business Secretary Vince Cable, among others.

At 62, he has had a political career spanning four decades, working with senior party figures such as the former Tory leader Lord Howard, and the former party chairman, Lord Patten.

The former Liberal leader Lord Steel has called on the party to lift the threat of expulsion hanging over Lord Rennard.

In a statement to MPs after abandoning plans to reform the Lords last month, the deputy prime minister also rejected out of hand modest changes to the upper house proposed by the former Liberal leader Lord Steel of Aikwood.

But Lord Ashdown, the former party leader and Clegg's mentor, who ran the party's 2015 general election campaign, thought that his protege acquitted himself well in the face - offs with Farage.

He fears the reforms will descend into a «monumental Lord Ashdown, a former Lib Dem leader, hit back at the weekend, declaring that it should be a priority to make the Lords partially elected.

As mentioned by the author of Article 50, Lord John Kerr (a former UK diplomat), EU leaders then had feared that Austria may withdraw from the EU if the far - right Austrian Freedom Party was elected.

Lord Pearson - 68The former Tory peer has just stepped down as leader of UKIP.

Former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Ashdown used a comment piece in the Observer to hit out against George Osborne's tactics.

Lord Prescott joins ex-Hull city council leader Colin Inglis and former Humberside police chief Keith Hunter in the race.

Mr Serwotka used his time to make a direct personal attack on former Labour leader Lord Kinnock, who he labelled a «disgrace to Wales», and suggested hostile MPs should be deselected.

There was a somewhat intriguing joint byline in the FT this morning with William Hague, the Shadow Foreign Secretary, and former Lib Dem leader, Lord Ashdown, co-authoring a piece about the need for the West to continue to take a keen interest in what's happening in Bosnia.

She then debated her film in the Daily Politics studio with former Conservative leader Lord Howard and shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander.

Former Conservative leader and pro-Leave MP Iain Duncan Smith said the departure of Lord Adonis was «long overdue».

His links with former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Ashdown could also prove useful in the negotiation process.

Former Tory leader Lord Hague and Lord Heseltine both said she'd made the right call.

Adrian Masters is joined in the studio by the former leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, Lord German; Plaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth; Nathan Gill, the UKIP MEP and Pippa Bartolotti, the leader of the Wales Green Party.

Lord Kilclooney's tweet was widely criticised, with former Ulster Unionist Party leader Mike Nesbitt saying he could only interpret it as a «racist comment» while Alliance Party leader Naomi Long said it was a «slur on all Indian people over his use of the word typical».

Former leader Sir Menzies Campbell says party must move on from recent scandals involving Chris Huhne and Lord Rennard

On the advice of his junior minister Lord Bellwin, a former leader of Leeds City Council, Heseltine ordered that nobody was to be hired without his personal approval.

Mr Paterson also pointed to a recent interview with former Ulster Unionist Party leader, Lord Trimble, one of the architects of the 1998 peace deal.

The letter from activists also came as Lord Steel, the former Liberal leader of the Liberal party, told the Guardian that the party Lib Dem party «has not covered itself in glory» over the affair.

The former Liberal leader Lord Steel has told ITV News that the party should lift the threat of expulsion hanging over Lord Rennard and the peer should withdraw any legal action.

The former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Ashdown has admitted his party is suffering the «excruciating» pain of being found wanting in its support for women's rights.

He said Lord Kinnock and Lord Hattersley — the former leader and deputy leader, who have both voiced support for Ed Miliband — wanted to «hark back to a previous age».

Lord Ashdown, a former party leader, said Rennard could simply protest his innocence and express general regret by way of an apology.

Former Tory peer Lord Hanningfield claimed nearly # 300,000 over a five - year period when he was leader of Essex county council, it has emerged.

Former Labour leader Lord Kinnock has said it «doesn't look like» his party can win the general election.

The unofficial opening of the contest follows news of the death of former Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Lord Russell - Johnston.

Former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Ashdown describes how he continues to hate both Labour and the Conservatives.

Former chancellors Lord Norman Lamont and Lord Nigel Lawson and ex-party leaders Iain Duncan Smith and Lord Michael Howard poured scorn on warnings of economic disaster from the Remain campaign.

The South Wales Central Assembly Member secured 55 % of the vote over her main rival, Elin Jones, on the second ballot, after former leader, Lord Dafydd Elis Thomas had been eliminated.

James Landale and Andrew Neil review the PMQs clashes with Labour's Chris Leslie and former Tory leader Lord Howard.

James Landale was going over the NHS clashes at PMQs with Labour's Chris Leslie and former Tory leader Lord Howard, along with Daily Politics presenter Andrew Neil.

Mr Cameron led the cross-party campaign to keep us in the EU last year, including at one point manning a phonebank with Lib Dem Lord Ashdown and former Labour leader Lord Kinnock

Former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Ashdown says Chris Huhne should go to prison for perverting the course of justice and only has himself to blame.

Lord Falconer, the former lord chancellor, also stepped up his attack on the prime minister, writing today's Times: «My view is that the painful step of changing our leader, a leader who has given his life to the Labour party and to public service, would be best for the party and the country.&raLord Falconer, the former lord chancellor, also stepped up his attack on the prime minister, writing today's Times: «My view is that the painful step of changing our leader, a leader who has given his life to the Labour party and to public service, would be best for the party and the country.&ralord chancellor, also stepped up his attack on the prime minister, writing today's Times: «My view is that the painful step of changing our leader, a leader who has given his life to the Labour party and to public service, would be best for the party and the country.»

David Cameron ordered a «rapid review» of the relationship between the two Houses of Parliament which will be chaired by former Lords leader Lord Strathclyde.