Former Liberal Democrats leader, the Rt Hon Charles Kennedy MP, failed to make it to the ITT Conference in Gran Canaria where he was due to be a speaker.
Kennedy was due to fly out on the Thursday night, ready to speak at 12.30 on Friday, but missed his flight.
When the conference organisers re-booked him on a flight for the Friday morning, he went to London Heathrow instead of Gatwick and therefore missed a second flight.
Instead, conference moderator Tim Hames, assistant editor of The Times, had to come up with a last-minute speech to wrap up the conference.
Hames joked that missing a flight would now become known, in the industry, as “doing a Kennedy”!
By Bev Fearis
