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All answers to my quiz have British place names in the answer, can anyone help with this one?

Commercial acumen (3,3,8)

Eye for business ?
Eye - village in Suffolk.

Thanks Escher that will do nicely.

Any ideas on these?

Former Royal Navy airborne forces (5,3,3)

Printed material (7,6)

Reading matter ?
Reading town in Berkshire

Fleet Air Arm ?
Fleet town in Hampshire

Thanks Escher, you're good at these, try the last 3.

Become reconciled (4,3,7)

A purgative medicine (5,5)

The orbit (3,6)

epsom salts?
maybe eye socket?

bury the hatchet.

Thanks Trevor, I'm just left with one but think I may have been given the wrong amount of letters.

Former Liberal Politician (6,4,6,7)

there are several liberal politicans in the
Dyke Acland family.
Dyke is a UK place name
can't find one that fits 6,4,6,7

closest I can find is
Arthur Herbert Dyke Acland (6,7,4,6)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Arthur_Dyke_Acland,_13th_Baronet

Paddy Ashdown, the British politician is Jeremy John Durham Ashdown- Durham being the place name?