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 ASHDOWN WOOS TORIES UPSET AT HAGUE WEN 
 Tories depressed at the outcome of     
 their leadership contest will find "a  
 welcome home" in the Liberal Democrats,
 Paddy Ashdown has said.                
                                        
 He claimed William Hague's win         
 guaranteed ongoing Tory divisions.     
                                        
 The party would continue its drift to  
 the anti-European right, hj said.      
                                        
 He added that the Tories had turned    
 their backs on "the one person who     
 could drag them back to modjtation,    
 commonsense and one-nation values".    
                                        
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