Tag: Tim Farron

• Tuesday, April 18th 2017 - 12:41 UTC

  Theresa May plans a snap general election: “The country is coming together but Westminster is not”

  

  United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May has announced plans to call a snap general election on 8 June. She said Britain needed certainty, stability and strong leadership following the EU referendum, and supporting her decision, said: “The country is coming together but Westminster is not.”

• Saturday, December 3rd 2016 - 07:44 UTC

  Brexit controversy ousts Tories from safe seat: Lib Dem newcomer Sarah Olney wins by election

  

  Lib Dem leader Tim Farron claims his party is “back in the big time” after it fought on the issue of Brexit to oust ex-Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith in the Richmond Park by-election. Lib Dem challenger Sarah Olney overturned Goldsmith's 23,015 majority to finish 1,872 votes ahead.

• Thursday, July 14th 2016 - 03:54 UTC

  May pledges to work “for all not just the privileged few”; Johnson foreign secretary and Hammond chancellor

  

  New Prime Minister Theresa May has made Boris Johnson, the former London mayor who led the Brexit campaign, foreign secretary in her new government. He replaces Philip Hammond, who becomes chancellor and ex-Energy Secretary Amber Rudd is home secretary and Euro skeptic David Davis is the Brexit secretary. Ex-chancellor George Osborne was not included apparently because his “brand” was seen as “too tarnished”.