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14 Oct 2025, 1:01 p.m. - House of Commons "I was elected to the late, great Charles Kennedy was. >> Meant to be doing the constituency visit to Westmoreland. His son was born the night before " Tim Farron MP (Westmorland and Lonsdale, Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript
4 Jul 2025, 11:57 a.m. - House of Lords "and the Prime Minister lacked any interest in it. I recall Charles Kennedy telling me that whenever he " Lord Norton of Louth (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript

Parliamentary Debates
Speaker’s Statement 19 speeches (5,508 words) Tuesday 14th October 2025 - Commons Chamber Cabinet Office Mentions: 1: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) friendship until Mark’s passing just two years ago.In 2005, the year I was elected, the late, great Charles Kennedy - Link to Speech
UK Constitution: Oversight and Responsibility (Report from the Constitution Committee) 49 speeches (23,754 words) Friday 4th July 2025 - Lords Chamber Northern Ireland Office Mentions: 1: Lord Norton of Louth (Con - Life peer) I recall Charles Kennedy telling me that, whenever he tried to talk to the Prime Minister about parliamentary - Link to Speech
Great British Energy Bill 184 speeches (43,105 words) 2nd reading Thursday 5th September 2024 - Commons Chamber Department for Energy Security & Net Zero Mentions: 1: Angus MacDonald (LD - Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire) road.Astonishing though the beauty is, it is the people of the highlands that I—like my amazing predecessor Charles Kennedy - Link to Speech 2: Toby Perkins (Lab - Chesterfield) In particular, when he speaks of Charles Kennedy, who is still tremendously missed in this place, he - Link to Speech
Media Bill 90 speeches (44,454 words) 2nd reading Wednesday 28th February 2024 - Lords Chamber Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Mentions: 1: Lord Hunt of Wirral (Con - Life peer) press, the late and much-lamented former leader of the Liberal Democrats, that fine and witty man Charles Kennedy - Link to Speech
Scotland (Self-Determination) 4 speeches (2,638 words) Tuesday 16th January 2024 - Commons Chamber Mentions: 1: Neale Hanvey (Alba - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath) In particular, Liberal Democrat MPs such as Ray Michie and Charles Kennedy were forthright in their support - Link to Speech
UK Military Action in Iraq: Declassified Documents 20 speeches (8,753 words) Wednesday 13th December 2023 - Westminster Hall Attorney General Mentions: 1: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) war, we should never forget him and it is a tragedy that he is not here with us today.Equally, Charles Kennedy - Link to Speech

Select Committee Documents
Friday 4th April 2025 Report - Works of Art Annual Report 2013-14 Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art Found: Haselhurst Alison McGovern George Hollingbery Caroline Nokes Tristram Hunt Jacob Rees-Mogg Mr Charles Kennedy

Parliamentary Research
Military action: Parliament's role - CBP-10001 Apr. 19 2024 Found: For example, Tony Blair briefed Iain Duncan Smith, then Conservative party leader, and Charles Kennedy
The office and functions of the Prime Minister - CBP-9880 Mar. 15 2024 Found: For example, Tony Blair briefed Iain Duncan Smith, the then Conservative Party leader, and Charles Kennedy

Tweets
Alistair Carmichael (Liberal Democrat - Orkney and Shetland) - @amcarmichaelMP 21 Mar 2023, 4 p.m. Some joined campaign groups, some joined parties. Many were inspired by my colleague and friend Charles Kennedy, and the @LibDems’ principled stand – hardly consequence-free – against war, when the media and political consensus (with plenty of vitriol) seemed impenetrable. 15/ https://t.co/Xps8Vz9H04 Link to Original Tweet
Baroness Hussein-Ece (Liberal Democrat - Life peer) - @meralhece 20 Mar 2023, 10:44 a.m. @LeonDuveen @libdemvoice Of course it’s ‘your right’ Its also a pillar of liberal democracy to have debates, & as Paddy Ashdown & Charles Kennedy often said, to allow freedom of speech & expression. Didn’t hear calls for people to be thrown out the party if they disagreed with quotas for BAME ppl. Link to Original Tweet

Tweets

Alistair Carmichael (Liberal Democrat - Orkney and Shetland) - @amcarmichaelMP
21 Mar 2023, 4 p.m.

Some joined campaign groups, some joined parties. Many were inspired by my colleague and friend Charles Kennedy, and the @LibDems’ principled stand – hardly consequence-free – against war, when the media and political consensus (with plenty of vitriol) seemed impenetrable. 15/ https://t.co/Xps8Vz9H04

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Baroness Hussein-Ece (Liberal Democrat - Life peer) - @meralhece
20 Mar 2023, 10:44 a.m.

@LeonDuveen @libdemvoice Of course it’s ‘your right’ Its also a pillar of liberal democracy to have debates, & as Paddy Ashdown & Charles Kennedy often said, to allow freedom of speech & expression. Didn’t hear calls for people to be thrown out the party if they disagreed with quotas for BAME ppl.

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