Lib Dem leadership

The competition is on to attain Tim Farron as personality of a Liberal Democrats – here is a outline of a party’s MPs.

Jo Swinson



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Immediately commissioned as a bookies’ favourite, Swinson done a good sense as a youth equalities apportion in a bloc supervision before being ejected from her East Dunbartonshire chair in a 2015 Lib Dem clean out. The 37-year-old regained a chair with a infancy of some-more than 5,000. She would be a party’s initial womanlike personality – a vital offered indicate for her candidacy should she confirm to stand.

Sir Vince Cable



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The twinkle-toed large savage of a Lib Dem jungle won behind his Twickenham chair final Thursday. The former business secretary is a former Labour councillor who assimilated a Lib Dems around a SDP in a 1980s. A good disciple of cross-party working, a 74-year-old could take over as caretaker personality for a integrate of years, according a BBC’s partner domestic editor Norman Smith. If a council ran a full course, Mr Cable would be 79 during a time of a subsequent election.

Norman Lamb



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Another former bloc minister, in a health department, who survived a winnow of Lib Dem MPs in 2015, he unsuccessfully ran opposite Tim Farron for a celebration care dual years ago. Seen as being on a economically magnanimous wing of a party. The 59-year-old North Norfolk MP has a support bottom among celebration members, who trust he would adopt a some-more “centrist” proceed than Mr Farron and be reduction gung ho about hostile Brexit than a former leader. Is suspicion to be prepared for another lean during a tip job.

Sir Ed Davey



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A former cupboard minister, who hold a meridian change brief in a bloc government, where he championed renewable appetite and threatened to mangle adult a “big six” suppliers. Sir Ed Davey is also suspicion expected to chuck his shawl into a ring. The 51-year-old won behind his Kingston and Surbiton chair from his Tory competition final week. He was a co-author of a 2004 Orange Book, that stressed a advantages of a giveaway marketplace in rebellious amicable problems though divided opinion within a party.

Alistair Carmichael

He was Secretary of State for Scotland during a bloc years and survived a 2015 choosing as a usually Lib Dem MP in Scotland, quickly holding assign of a celebration after Nick Clegg’s resignation. After that debate he had to apologize for a leaking of an false memo to a journal claiming Nicola Sturgeon elite David Cameron as primary minister. He has been a MP for Orkney and Shetland given 2001.

Tom Brake

The longest-serving MP in a Lib Dems’ south-west London powerbase, Tom Brake represented Carshalton and Wallington given 1997. The 55-year-old was emissary Commons personality in a coalition. Has ruled out himself out of celebration care contests in a past.

Stephen Lloyd

Won behind Eastbourne for a Lib Dems after being unseated by a Conservative claimant in 2015. A former Parliamentary Private Secretary to Ed Davey, he is suspicion expected to combine on subdivision issues rather than a celebration leadership, hence a really prolonged contingency on him during a bookies.

Wera Hobhouse

The German-born former clergyman won a Lib Dem aim chair of Bath during a ubiquitous choosing with a sexually pro-European, anti-hard Brexit campaign.

Jamie Stone

The Caithness, Sutherland and East Ross MP was a long-serving internal councillor in a Highlands, and a former member of a Scottish Parliament, before he became one of 3 Lib Dems to benefit seats from a SNP during a ubiquitous election.

Christine Jardine

The former publisher and university techer won a Lib Dem aim chair of Edinburgh West during a ubiquitous election. Like a other newly-elected Lib Dems she might feel it is small early to mountain a care bid.

Layla Moran

Believed to be a initial MP of Palestinian skirmish to be inaugurated to a Commons, Layla Moran unseated former Tory frontbencher Nicola Blackwood in a Oxford chair of Abingdon West by only 816 votes.

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