Lord Campbell of Pittenweem obituary

Liberal Democrat leader and sage politician who was also an Olympic athlete and British record holder The veteran Liberal Democrat politician Menzies Campbell, who has died aged 84, was briefly the party’s leader for 19 months from March 2006, before falling prey to a whispering campaign by colleagues claiming he was too old, at 66, for the job. Not too old, however, to serve another eight years as an MP.Even at that age, Campbell could probably have outpaced most of his younger critics, h