Last Orders for Kennedy ; Top Lib-Dems Savage Charlie Growing Calls for Him to Resign

Evening Standard - London › January 06, 2006

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CHARLES KENNEDY was "a dead man walking" today as his most senior colleagues ganged up to drive him out.

A vicious torrent of public denunciations from his own frontbenchers and senior MPs made his position as leader of the Liberal Democrats seem untenable after he admitted to a serious drink problem.

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Last Orders for Kennedy ; Top Lib-Dems Savage Charlie Growing Calls for Him to Resign

Mr Kennedy staged a show of defiance, insisting he could beat any challenger in a ballot of party members. He appealed for MPs to reflect over the weekend.

But his critics refused to put away their knives.

Seni...

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