Former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Menzies Campbell has died aged 84.

Lord Campbell, the chancellor of the University of St Andrews, was an advocate and an Olympic athlete before entering politics.

To friends and colleagues, Sir Menzies was known simply as Ming – a shortened version of the pronunciation of his Scottish name.

He served as MP for North East Fife for 28 years and led his party from March 2006 to October 2007.

He was married to his wife Lady Elspeth Mary Campbell for more than 50 years until her death in 2023, describing her as “my constant political companion, always my encouragement and forever my first line of defence”.

In 2015, he retired from Parliament and was appointed to the House of Lords as a Liberal Democrat peer with the title Lord Campbell of Pittenweem.

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