This afternoon Alex Salmond faced a public backlash after he appeared to use a television appearance to push his own politics, while paying tribute to the late Charles Kennedy. The Scottish Nationalist claimed on air that Kennedy, who passed away yesterday, was never really a true supporter of the Better Together campaign.
Now Jenny Rathbone, the Welsh Labour and Co-operative politician, has also risked the ire of the public with a tweet claiming that the 55-year-old’s passing is a ‘sad end to demise of Lib Dems’:
Many were quick to suggest that it was wrong to use his death as material for a political shot, and Rathbone hastily deleted the tweet:
@DeansOfCardiff I deleted it because it seemed to cause offence. None intended. Charles Kennedy a great politician who got it right on Iraq
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Many were quick to suggest that it was wrong to use his death as material for a political shot, and Rathbone hastily deleted the tweet:
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