Today marks the fifth anniversary of the sad passing of Charles Kennedy, at the age of just 55.
It’s a mark of how popular and widely respected Kennedy was that, several years after we lost him, he still attracts glowing tributes from figures on all sides of the political spectrum - Douglas Alexander tweeted a particularly poignant one earlier today.
I only found out recently that in 2010 Kennedy was literally the only Lib Dem MP to vote against the formation of the ruinous ConDem coalition, which makes me respect him even more.
RIP