Tim Farron yet to declare expected leadership bid

Mr Farron, who has said that he will decide in the coming days whether to challenge for the leadership, has been urged to run by the leaders of the Scottish and Welsh Lib Dems, Willie Rennie and Kirsty Williams.

“Tim is a committed liberal, a brilliant communicator, an outstanding campaigner and an inspirational leader,” they said in a joint statement.

“With him as leader we can show that we are a compassionate, tolerant, internationalist, reformist party that looks beyond sectional interest to the greater good, to our children’s future not just ours, that believes in partnership home and abroad, not division, that is liberal and democratic.”