Menzies Campbell, former Liberal Democrat leader, dies at 84 | Menzies Campbell

Menzies Campbell, who has been serving the party for 18 months for 18 months, died at the age of 84.

Lord Campbell, usually known as Ming, died in London after a while. He spent some of his last days watching the Lib Dem Conference last weekend.

Campbell spent about thirty years as a member of the North East Fife, and after suddenly resigned, Charles Kennedy was suddenly treated for alcoholism, and after he suddenly resigned, he became the party leader in 2006.

As a leader, he sometimes had a difficult period, and when Gordon Brown turned out to be about to make an election in 2007, there was a speculation about the difficulty of leadership.

Although the election did not take place, Campbell resigned: “Further progress has been made by the party questions about leadership.” Vince Cable temporarily took over the leadership by Nick Clegg, which Campbell encouraged to be a spokesman for Interior.

In the 2015 elections, Campbell became a peer after he resigned before the Lib Dem MPS was closely deleted.

He studied at Glasgow and Stanford universities and was a lawyer before he became a politician. It was also a very talented sprinter, Compete for Britain He held the record of the UK for 100m with 10.2 seconds, a sign that stands in the 1964 Olympics and until 1974 in 1967.

At the 1964 Tokyo Games, Campbell, who was 23 years old, took part in 200m, reached the quarterfinals and the team’s finals 4x100m relay.

As a student in Stanford, he competed and beat against Oj Simpson, a university athletics career before returning to American football. In one of these occasions, Campbell finished the second US athlete Tommie Smith, who won 200 meters in the 1968 Olympics and gave a black power salute from the podium in a famous podium.

Campbell explained the experience in an interview with a Scottish newspaper. Im I had a very good closed season. I ran at the Maple Leaf Gardens in the Cow Palace in San Francisco. I was the first open -air harness of San Antonio Mountain Relay Meet and defeating a certain Oj Simpson, who had not yet passed to American football, I did not take the third place.

Lib Dem, Ed Davey, said Campbell is a “tireless champion and a real liberal giant for a private public official, Fife, St Andrews and England.”

He said: “When the world changed on September 11 and the principled leadership that opposed the Iraq War was a sign of morality, courage and wisdom. He spoke for the truth even when it was difficult.

“Like many of us, I have benefited greatly from Ming’s advice and guidance for many years. But beyond that, it was an incredibly warm and affectionate friend and colleague with this generosity and humor.

“Ming was always a great company – whether he speaks with the authority of a captain of the athletics team of Britain and a 100 -meter record holder, or when he always asks you and your family when he will always give gentle thoughts from his wife Elspeth.

“We will all miss him in the liberal democratic family and beyond. Our thoughts are with everyone who loves him.”

Brown, Campbell said, “It will be remembered as a polymate-British Olympic athlete, a well-known defender at the Scottish Bar Association, the most popular parliamentary member and the liberal leader specializing in Scottish works.

Orum I remember him as a FIFE deputy and a friend who always shares a strong sense of social justice and international cooperation to work with inter -party lines.

“He will also be remembered for his kindness and humanity, he will always be generous to other people, always to give his advice and listen to others’ advice.

“In Scotland, we will remember him as one of our great leaders of recent times, and England has always lost a good, compassionate, gentle leader that there was always a pleasure to work.”

Scottish First Minister John Swinney praised one of the most distinguished and popular political figures of his generation, and said that he was “deeply upset with his death.

“Lord Campbell was a better passionate belief in Scotland, also a powerful internationalist, enthusiastic to build a consensus and find a common ground.

After peer, Campbell remained close to Lib Dem politics and was a regular and gentle entity in party events.

In 2023, his wife Elspeth, older than 50, died at the age of 83. In 1944, he was the daughter of Maj Gen Roy Urquhart, who ruled the forces in the air during the Arnhem war and later played in a bridge film by Sean Connery.