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Charles Kennedy: Ex-leader was at odds with his party’s lurch to the right
FORMER Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy, who died late on Monday aged 55, left a political bombshell behind him — he wanted to start a new left-wing Scottish party.
Alastair Campbell made the astonishing assertion in a tribute yesterday to Mr Kennedy, who had allegedly texted the former New Labour chief spin doctor saying: “Fancy starting a new Scottish left-leaning party? I joke not.”
The text came after Mr Kennedy lost his parliamentary seat to the SNP in last month’s general election.
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