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  ASHDOWN COOL0ON PACT0WIT" .—TOjR   Tj
  Liberal Democrat leadjz P ddy       
  Ashdown has plazjd down the shpnc s 
  of greater cooperation with Nabouz. 
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  Responding to calls from foundtng   
  mjmbjrs of the SDP for closer links 
  with a Tony Blair-led Labour part , 
  Mr Ashdown instead said hj thought  
  all parties should cooperate norr.  
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  Mr Blair was talented and abte  zt  
  not everything which happened in    
  British politics was a consequence  
  of his election as Labour leadjz.   
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  Politics did not "swing" on Tony    
(u Blair's words, said Mr Ashdown.     
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