Tributes to Charles Kennedy after shock death at 55

Warm tributes have poured in from across the political spectrum to former Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy, whose death at 55 has shocked Westminster.

Kennedy had served as an MP for 32 years, but was ousted from his Ross, Skye, and Lochaber constituency last month as the Scottish National Party swept the board north of the border in the general election.

Kennedy had “brains, talent, wit, and bags of humanity,” David Cameron said. The British prime minister described the former Liberal Democrat leader as a politician of “immense ability” and said his death was a “tragic loss”.