The SNP’s former Westminster leader has said he had “utmost respect” for Charles Kennedy, the ex-Liberal Democrat leader who died from a haemorrhage linked to alcoholism.
Ian Blackford, who recently announced he would step down as an MP at the next election, was responding to questions at a live talk show at the Edinburgh Fringe festival when co-host Iain Dale spoke of how many Scottish Lib Dem voters “blame” Mr Blackford for Mr Kennedy’s difficult final months before his death.
