THE WRATH OF FIERY FARRON
Lib Dem leader stirs up his becalmed campaign with a savage, personal (and extremely provocative) blast at Theresa May as he unleashes...
reverse Brexit. Instead, he has been left becalmed as most appear to have decided it is a fait accompli and that dogged Mrs May is more likely to browbeat Brussels into giving us a halfdecent deal than anyone else.
Farron denies Nick Clegg’s disastrous U-turn over tuition fees in the Tory-Lib Dem Coalition still haunts his party. He tries to turn his own refusal to back Clegg over it to his advantage, claiming it cost him a Coalition Cabinet job.
‘I went out of my way,’ he pauses, ‘at a cost to myself,’ another hint, ‘to do the right thing and keep a promise.’
Spell it out man. ‘I might have been a Minister.’
For all his disdain of Clegg, last week’s largely ignored TV leaders’ debate was a reminder that Farron has failed to match his predecessor’s explosive impact in the 2010 TV debates.
Keen fell runner Farron may be less photogenic but he loves the limelight just as much: he was lead singer in a New Romantics band The Voyeurs in his 20s.
Earlier this week, a poll said he was seen as ‘weird’ by voters. He hits back with a series of digs at May and Corbyn: ‘As the only northern and working-class leader with a hinterland, my football, music, faith and family, not a privileged background: yes, that makes me weird for a politician.’
Farron’s beloved Blackburn Rovers FC were relegated this month. If the Lib Dems flop on June 8, his beloved party may suffer a similar fate.
I’m working class. Yes, that’s weird for a politician