30 August 1917 – 3 October 2015
His one-time Labour colleague recalls the former chancellor’s political bravery,vast knowledge and daft humour
• Read the Observer’s obituaries of 2015 in full here
• Charles Kennedy remembered by Ian HislopI first met Denis when I was 15 and my father [the political scientist and philosopher George Catlin] took me to the 1946 Labour party conference. Denis was just out of the army and still wearing uniform and I remember him speaking very well approximately the prospects of a new postwar world. He struck me as clever, thoughtful and wonderfully vigorous.
Denis was indomitable, and remarkable and the last of a mighty generation of political leadersContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com