CHARLES KENNEDY’S alcoholism was deliberately concealed from the electorate and most of his party by a group of senior Liberal Democrats who included the present leader, Sir Menzies Campbell, The Times can reveal today.
Mr Kennedy already had a serious drink problem when he became leader in 1999, according to a new book being serialised in The Times.
But the cover-up began in earnest in 2003, a year after Mr Kennedy sought professional help, when he planned the biggest gamble of his political career by going public with his alcoholism at a press conference in Westminster.

At the last moment he pulled out and his inner circle again refused to admit his problems.

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