Lib Dem Leadership candidate Tim Farron MP has released the names of five new senior backers. They are former Pensions Minister Steve Webb and DEFRA Minister Dan Rogerson, as well as former MPs Annette Brooke, Richard Younger-Ross and Stephen Lloyd. The new backing follows the release this morning of an independent poll by respected polling company Yougov, which shows Farron leading by a 3:1 margin amongst Lib Dem members.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has welcomed new figures showing that 130 people in Westmorland & Lonsdale have been helped off benefits and are now running their own businesses, under the New Enterprise Allowance scheme.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has praised the council for 'backing business' and supporting the creation of a business hub in Kendal.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has said local residents deserve to know what will happen with any proposed extensions to the National Park boundaries in Cumbria and should not have to put up with being left in limbo.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has today released his list of advice surgeries for June, July and August.
Over 200 of the party's leading councillors have backed Tim Farron's leadership campaign, including the party's two elected mayors and three of the party's principal authority leaders - Peter Thornton (South Lakeland), Keith House (Eastleigh) and Sue Derbyshire (Stockport).