Tim Farron

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Tim Farron in 2016

Timothy James "Tim" Farron (born May 27, 1970 in Preston , Lancashire ) is a British politician. He was party president from 2010 to 2014 and party chairman of the Liberal Democrats from 2015 to 2017 and is a member of the House of Commons .

Life

Farron joined the Liberal Democrats when he was 16 . He studied politics at the University of Newcastle and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1992. After graduating, Farron worked at the University of Lancaster , among others .

Political career

During his student days, Farron became the first Liberal Democrat president of the Student Union at the University of Newcastle.

In 2001 he ran for the first time as a candidate for the Lib Dems for a House of Commons in the Westmorland and Lonsdale constituency , which had always been represented by a Conservative MP since 1910 . Farron had to admit defeat, but in 2005 he was able to unite the most votes and moved into the House of Commons . In 2010 and 2015 he was able to defend his seat.

In 2010 he was elected president of the party. He held this office until the end of 2014.

During the liberal-conservative coalition from 2010 to 2015, during which the Lib Dems ruled together with the Tories , Farron voted as one of 21 liberal MPs against the planned law to increase tuition fees and thus against the official party line.

Farron is assigned to the left wing of the Liberal Democrats.

After the resignation of the previous party chairman Nick Clegg after the heavy losses of the Lib Dems in the general election in 2015 , Tim Farron was elected as the new party leader in July 2015.

Farron led the Liberal Democrats as the top candidate in the early election of the British House of Commons announced by Prime Minister Theresa May in 2017 . The election date was June 8, 2017. In an interview before the election, Farron predicts a major victory for the Tories , who have already ruled alone , and has concluded a pact with the Labor Party and its top candidate Jeremy Corbyn and the Green Party .

Farron was able to keep his headquarters in Westmorland & Lonsdale , but only had a lead of 777 votes, in 2015 it was over 8,000. In general, the Lib Dems were able to gain 4 seats in the election, and therefore now have 12 MPs in the House of Commons , a percentage of 7.4% nationwide, compared to 7.9% in the 2015 general election. They lost in the 2017 election So you got votes, but gained seats.

On June 14, 2017, Farron resigned as party chairman. He justified this with the fact that he could no longer reconcile his strict Christian faith with the responsibilities of a party leader.

Personal

Tim Farron is married and lives with his family in Milnthorpe , Cumbria . He is a fan of the Blackburn Rovers soccer team .

Farron is a devout Christian . He came under political attack several times when he refused to answer when asked whether he viewed homosexual intercourse as a sin. In April 2017, he publicly declared that he would not consider it a sin. In January 2018, however, he stated that he regretted this statement.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tim-farron-the-next-leader-of-the-lib-dems-8943174.html
  2. ↑ http://www.politics.co.uk/reference/timothy-james-farron
  3. ↑ http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-11750362
  4. ↑ http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-11964669
  5. ↑ http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/03/tim-farron-profile-lib-dems-leader-waiting
  6. ↑ Tim Farron new leader of the British Liberals. In: news.orf.at. July 16, 2015, accessed October 22, 2017 .
  7. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/10/tim-farron-predicts-landslide-conservative-victory-election
  8. ↑ http://www.bbc.com/news/election/2017/results
  9. ↑ http://www.bbc.com/news/election-2017-40209503
  10. ↑ Tim Farron resigns: "Torn between life as a Christian and a politician". Die Presse , June 14, 2017, accessed on the same day.
  11. ↑ http://timfarron.co.uk/en/page/about-tim-farron
  12. ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tim-farron-the-next-leader-of-the-lib-dems-8943174.html
  13. ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/25/tim-farron-says-gay-sex-not-sin-admits-had-allowed-become-election/
  14. ↑ Tim Farron 'regrets' saying he believed gay sex was not a sin , The Independent. Retrieved January 11, 2018.

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personal data
SURNAME Farron, Tim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Farron, Timothy James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Preston , Lancashire