Tim Farron
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Timothy James Farron (born 27 May 1970) is a British politician who served as the Leader of the Liberal Democrats from July 2015 to July 2017.
Following the 2017 United Kingdom general election, he resigned as Member of Parliament (MP) for Westmorland and Lonsdale, having first been elected in 2005 and re-elected in the 2010, 2015, and 2019 general elections. Farron served as the President of the Liberal Democrats from January 2011 to December 2014.
He has been the Liberal Democrats Spokesperson for Communities and Local Government since February 7, 2019, alongside Housing Spokesperson The Lord Shipley.
Jo Swinson, the new Liberal Democrat leader, has appointed Farron Spokesperson for Communities and Local Government, Education and Pensions, Housing and Planning, and the Northern Powerhouse in August 2019.
Early life and education
Farron was born in Preston, Lancashire, and studied at Lostock Hall High School and Runshaw College, Leyland, before going on to Newcastle University, where he obtained a BA in Politics in 1992. Farron has recalled how his bedroom was full of pictures of such diverse figures as the assassinated President John F. Kennedy, former Liberal Party leader Jo Grimond, and then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Farron fronted Preston-based bands Tim Farron and the Voyeurs, also known as Fred The Girl from 1987 to 1992. After a string of highly successful tours, the band, according to Farron, was very popular among Lancashire's youth. Farron said the band had been offered a record contract with Island Records. However, former band members have characterized "Tim Farron and the Voyeurs" as a "fourth rate New Order" in response.
In 1990, he was elected to the National Union of Students' National Executive. He was elected president of Newcastle University Union Union Society in the first Liberal Democrat to hold office after joining the Liberal Party at the age of 16. Farron served in higher education at Lancaster University from 1992 to 2002, and then to 2005 at St. Martin's College, Ambleside, from 2002 to 2005.
Personal life
Farron, a lifelong non-conformist Protestant, says, "becoming a Christian at the age of eighteen [was] the most significant decision I've made." He is a lifelong Blackburn Rovers fan and a vegetarian. He received an edition of Celebrity Mastermind in January 2018, with Blackburn Rovers as his subject.
A Better Ambition, a Confessions of a Faithful Liberal who identifies his life as both a Christian and a Liberal, appeared in an autobiography in 2019.
Farron completed the 2021 London Marathon in a record-breaking time of 44 minutes. The Brathay Trust is raising funds for the Brathay Trust.
Political career
Farron ran in the 1992 general election in North West Durham, where he came in third place, behind current Labour Party MP Hilary Armstrong and potential Prime Minister Theresa May. He served on Lancashire County Council from 1993 to 2000, and he was also a councillor for Leyland Central ward on South Ribble Borough Council from 1995 to 1999.
Farron was selected to contest the South Ribble Labour/Conservative marginal constituency in 1997 and finished third place. In the 1999 European Parliament elections, he ran as a Liberal Democrat candidate for the North West region.
Farron ran for the Westmorland and Lonsdale seat in 2001 and came in second, reducing the majority of the sitting Conservative MP Tim Collins to 3,167. From 2004 to 2008, he served as a councillor for Milnthorpe's ward on the South Lakeland District Council.
Farron defeated Collins in Westmorland and Lonsdale in 2005, winning this election by a slim margin of only 267 votes. On May 25, 2005, he made his first appearance in Parliament. He became a member of the Education and Skills Select Committee and was appointed as the Liberal Democrats' Youth Affairs Spokesperson. He formed an all-party parliament group on hill farming in 2005, which he was still chaired as of March 2015.
Farron, Campbell's Parliamentary Private Secretary, was Campbell during Menzies Campbell's time as the Liberal Democrat leader. He was made a Liberal Democrat spokesman for Home Affairs in 2007.
Farron resigned from the front bench of the Liberal Democrats on March 5, 2008, in protest at the party's abstination from a parliamentary referendum on a proposed Conservative referendum on Britain's accession to the Lisbon Treaty. However, he later returned to the party's front bench as the Minister of Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs. He is a member of the Beveridge group of the Liberal Democrats.
Farron led by a majority of 12,264 in his historic Conservative majority in the 2010 general election, posting an 11.1% swing from the Conservatives. This development was against the rest of the party's leadership, making Westmorland and Lonsdale one of the few Liberal strongholds.
Farron was running for Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats on May 27, 2010, which was left vacant after Vince Cable's resignation. Farron lost the election to former party President Simon Hughes on June 9th. Hughes won by 20 votes despite receiving 38 nominations from the parliamentary party in comparison to Farron's 18.
Farron took the position of President of the Liberal Democrats on September 16th following Baroness Scott's decision not to run for re-election. He gained the presidency with 53% of the vote, defeating fellow contender Susan Kramer on 47%.
Farron was one of three MPs to write a letter to the Advertising Standards Authority in March 2012, condemning the Christian group "Healing on the Streets of Bath" from making explicit claims that prayer will heal. The letter urged the ASA to produce indisputable scientific proof that faith healing did not work; Farron later admitted that the letter was not "well-worded" and that he should not have signed it "as it was written."
At the 2015 general election, Farron was one of just eight Liberal Democrats elected nationally. He was considered a favorite to replace Nick Clegg as the Liberal Democrats' leader.