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Lord Ashdown: Windrush highlights how the UK has failed Commonwealth citizens in her last colony - Hong Kong
Foreign affairs
By The Rt Hon the Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon GCMG KBE CH
Lord Ashdown: Windrush highlights how the UK has failed Commonwealth citizens in her last colony - Hong Kong

Former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Ashdown compares the Windrush scandal to how the citizens of Hong Kong were treated twenty one years ago when the last British colony was handed over to 'a burgeoning post-communist China'.
Lord Ashdown: We must not turn our backs on the million people in Aleppo
Foreign affairs
By The Rt Hon the Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon GCMG KBE CH
Lord Ashdown: We must not turn our backs on the million people in Aleppo

Former European Special Representative in Bosnia & Herzegovina Lord Ashdown writes that a three hour ceasefire in Aleppo is not sufficient humanitarian access and calls on the RAF to consider airdrops to besieged areas 'if adequate humanitarian corridors are not established'.
Lord Ashdown: The EU helped build peace after war in Bosnia
Foreign affairs
By The Rt Hon the Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon GCMG KBE CH
Lord Ashdown: The EU helped build peace after war in Bosnia
Former High Representative in Bosnia & Herzegovina Lord Ashdown 'has seen the benefits of this international cooperation first hand' and writes that the EU 'is a massive soft power that helps to build peace after conflict'.