Did Kennedy refuse the hand of friendship?

By The Voice | Published 20th September 2006 - 4:30 pm

Half an hour before Charles’ speech a rumour started to circulate that he had refused to shake Ming Campbell’s hand at the end of his speech.

Sure enough, Ming stayed in his seat and Charles stayed on the stage at the end of his speech.

Who knows what the truth was. But it’s perhaps not suprising that not all of the water has flowed under the bridge just yet.

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This story was reported on BBC News Online hours after we covered it.

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One Comment

  • Grace G
    Posted 28th September 2006 at 1:28 pm | Permalink

    When Charles took over from Paddy there wasn’t some big hand-shaking love-in. It would actually have been a change in tradition.

    I love to stir as much as the next gossip queen, but I think the real story here was how quickly Charles was dragged off stage. I think there was a real fear that his ovation would outshine that of his successor.

    We will never know for sure now, but I think that THAT is a more interesting issue

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