Tim Farron’s fearsome foursome: May, Le Pen, Trump, Putin What can Tim Farron, leader of the Liberal Democrats, do to get attention? He had an idea for the party’s conference in York today: suggest that the world is in the grip of a fearsome foursome: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Marine Le Pen… and Theresa May. He claimed that have the same traits in common: being “aggressive, nationalistic, anti-Nato, anti-EU. It is the post-war internationalist consensus unravelling in real time. Winston Churchill’s vision for a world that achieves peace through trade, common values and shared endeavour evaporating before our eyes.”
Clegg: Bring on the election. The Lib Dems couldn’t do any worse BBC1’s Sunday Politics, Nick Clegg – who saw his party’s MPs evaporate before his eyes last year – said that he would welcome an early general election, not least because the Liberal Democrats ‘couldn’t do much worse than we did last time’. When asked about his old cabinet colleague George Osborne’s new job as Editor of the Evening Standard, Clegg replied that Osborne was taking a lot on’ and ‘it was probably a little bit too much’.
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