No Ordinary Politician - MPs Honour Kennedy

But then Charles Kennedy was no ordinary politician, as his close friends paying tribute at his memorial service at St George's Cathedral, Southwark, emphasised again and again. Those friends included Jim Wallace, elected MP for Orkney and Shetland on the same day in the 1983 Thatcher landslide as Charles ousted the Tory Energy Minister Hamish Gray in Ross, Cromarty and Skye. Then Radio 4's Jim Naughtie, another highlander from Banff in Aberdeenshire and in those days a Thomson Regional New