The best speech in Brighton yesterday wasn't the one made by the Lib Dems' last leader. It was the one delivered by the leader before him - and it was about British foreign policy and the Middle East, subjects that have received relatively little attention this year.
Lord Ashdown made a prediction that drew sharp intakes of breath from his audience at a BBC fringe event on the post-9/11 world.
"Unless we can find a new way of thinking, I am very pessimistic about our ability to avoid large scale war involving the use of weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East in the next five years, and in the Far East in the next 20."
Conferences / UK politics
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