Charles was a fine man, a talented politician, and a loving father to his young son.
A statement released on behalf of his family said: "It is with great sadness and an enormous sense of shock that we announce the death of Charles Kennedy.
His heart would have been in a pro-European campaign, that's a campaign that Charles would have engaged in heart and soul.
The uniform worn by his commanding officer, General Sir Richard Nelson "Windy" Gale, is now displayed in a museum that Prince Charles opened in 2000 and the old Pegasus Bridge, replaced by a new bridge in 1994 and left to rot in a field, has been cleaned up and preserved.
David Cameron will doubtless depart from his political career next month with the bare minimum of a few lucrative company directorships and a kiss-and-tell book deal, so long as that police horse, Raisa and the lamb he cuddled at Easter can be persuaded to ditch their own competing publications, both currently being ghostwritten from audiotapes by the Financial Times's Ben Thompson.
Lamb, a former employment lawyer, is more aligned with the politics of the coalition, having served as minister for care and support.
Wistrich said: "The officers who shot Jean Charles have a defence if they had an honest belief that they were under imminent threat, even if they were mistaken and their mistake was wholly unreasonable".
Former Labour deputy leader John Prescott – deputy at the time of the 2003 war – said in his tribute on Twitter that Kennedy had been vindicated on Iraq: "So sad to hear of Charles Kennedy's passing.
Meanwhile, collectors of recherché celebrity litigation may find much to delight them in the tale of one Charles Sarris, who is suing a stage equipment company for injuries sustained during the construction of a giant pink tongue for Miley Cyrus's current Bangerz tour.
Lamb is worried that pledges he and then deputy prime minister Nick Clegg made to introduce a waiting time target for patients needing treatment for eating disorders may not be honoured.
Without it, and with the NHS under such massive pressure, mental health services will lose out, and our chance of securing equality will be lost", Lamb said.
