Charles Peter Kennedy was a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician who was Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1999 to 2006, and a Member of Parliament from 1983 to 2015, latterly for the Ross, Skye and Lochaber constituency. Kennedy became at different times a member of three political parties.
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