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Timothy James Farron (born 27 May 1970) is a British politician who is the Liberal Democrat member of parliament for Westmorland and Lonsdale. Image courtesy Liberal Democrats. ...
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May 27 is the 147th day (148th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 218 days remaining. ...
1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ...
The Politics series Politics Portal This box: A politician is an individual who is a formally recognized and active member of a government, or a person who influences the way a society is governed through an understanding of political power and group dynamics. ...
The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a liberal political party based in the United Kingdom. ...
A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ...
Creation 1983 MP Tim Farron Party Liberal Democrat Type House of Commons County Cumbria EP constituency North West England Westmorland and Lonsdale is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
Early life and career
He was born in Preston, Lancashire and was educated at Lostock Hall School and Runshaw College in Leyland. He continued his studies at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and gained a Bachelor of Arts degree in politics in 1992. He was elected president of the students' union in 1991, becoming its first Liberal Democrat president. Preston is a city and local government district in North West England. ...
Lancashire is a county in North West England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. ...
Lostock Hall is a small village in Lancashire to the south of Preston and to the north of Farington. ...
Runshaw College is a further and higher education college based in Leyland, Lancashire in the United Kingdom. ...
Leyland is a town in the borough of South Ribble, Lancashire, United Kingdom, approximately 6 miles south of Preston. ...
Newcastle University is a British university located in Newcastle upon Tyne in the north-east of England. ...
Bachelor of Arts (B.A., BA or A.B.), from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus is an undergraduate bachelors degree awarded for either a course or a program in the liberal arts or the sciences, or both. ...
A bachelors degree (Artium Baccalaureus, A.B. or B.A.) is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts for three, four, or in some cases and countries, five or six years. ...
Politics is the process by which groups make decisions. ...
A students union, student government, student leadership,or student council is a student organization present in many elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities. ...
Prior to his election to Parliament he worked in higher education at both Lancaster University and St. Martin's College, Ambleside. The Houses of Parliament, seen over Westminster Bridge The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories. ...
Lancaster University (officially the University of Lancaster) is a collegiate campus university in Lancaster, England. ...
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The view over Windermere from Ambleside. ...
He loves cheese and has been noted to eat it profusely. In a meeting with Sixth Form students in Kendal, he was noted for constantly munching on a Cheesestring and asking people for any spare mini Babybels. Not to mention having bum fun with mathew powell of Kendal.
Family He lives in Milnthorpe, within the constituency he represents, with his wife Rosie and their two sons and two daughters, the youngest son being born since his election to parliament. Location within the British Isles Milnthorpe is a small market town in Westmorland (now Cumbria). ...
Parliamentary career He contested the Durham North West constituency at the 1992 General Election. He finished in third place some 20,006 votes behind the sitting Labour MP Hilary Armstrong. He served as a councillor on the Lancashire County Council (1993-2000) and was also a councillor on South Ribble Borough Council (1995-1999). He was selected to contest the Labour/Conservative marginal constituency of South Ribble at the 1997 General Election, and again finished in third place. Durham North West is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
The UK general election, 1992 was held on April 9, 1992, and was the fourth victory in a row for the Conservatives. ...
The Labour Party has been, since its founding in the early 20th century, the principal political party of the left in the United Kingdom. ...
Hilary Jane Armstrong (born 30 November 1945, Sunderland) is a British Labour Party politician. ...
South Ribble is a local government district and borough in Lancashire, England. ...
South Ribble is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
The UK general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997. ...
At the 2001 General Election he contested the Westmorland and Lonsdale seat and finished second, reducing the majority of the sitting Conservative MP Tim Collins to 3,167. Farron was elected as a councillor to the South Lakeland District Council in 2004, and at the 2005 General Election he again fought Collins at Westmorland and Lonsdale. He won this election by just 267 votes. He made his maiden speech on May 25, 2005 [1]. Tony Blair William Hague Charles Kennedy The UK general election, 2001 was held on 7 June 2001 and was dubbed the quiet landslide by the media. ...
Creation 1983 MP Tim Farron Party Liberal Democrat Type House of Commons County Cumbria EP constituency North West England Westmorland and Lonsdale is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
Timothy William George Collins CBE (born May 7, 1964) is a British politician. ...
South Lakeland is a local government district in Cumbria, England. ...
Barring a change in the law, the next general election in the United Kingdom must be held some time before June 30, 2006. ...
A maiden speech is the first speech given by a newly elected representative in such bodies as the House of Commons or the United States House of Representatives. ...
May 25 is the 145th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (146th in leap years). ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
He has been a member of the Education and Skills Select Committee since his election, and later in 2005 was appointed as Youth Affairs Spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats. He is the Chair of the All Party group on Hill Farming. The Department for Education and Skills is a department in the United Kingdom government created in 2001. ...
A Select Committee is a committee made up of a small number of parliamentary members appointed to deal with particular areas or issues originating in the Westminster System of parliamentary democracy. ...
He has been Menzies Campbell's Parliamentary Private Secretary since Campbell's March 2006 election as leader of the Liberal Democrats. Sir Walter Menzies Campbell, CBE, QC (born 22 May 1941, Glasgow), commonly known as Ming Campbell, is a British politician. ...
A Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) is a junior role given to British Government MPs to act as the Parliamentary contact of senior Ministers. ...
Chris Huhne, Menzies Campbell and Simon Hughes at the London Hustings in Friends Meeting House on 23rd February The 2006 Liberal Democrats leadership election was won by Menzies Campbell. ...
External links - Tim Farron MP official site
- Tim Farron MP profile at the site of Liberal Democrats
- Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Tim Farron MP
- TheyWorkForYou.com - Tim Farron MP
- The Public Whip - Tim Farron MP voting record
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