Bruce Kent: tributes paid as peace campaigner dies aged 92

Bruce Kent at a CND demonstration in Hyde Park in 1983. He was a vocal critic of then-prime minister Margaret Thatcher’s defence policy. Photograph: Mirrorpix/Getty Images

Bruce Kent, the renowned political activist and retired Roman Catholic priest, has died aged 92 after a short illness, his family have announced.

Tributes have been paid to the vice-president for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) who died on Wednesday.