Speaking in the Houses of Parliament on Tuesday evening before he was called to vote on MPs taking over the parliamentary agenda, Tim Farron MP said: “We’re in a place where ambition is often very naked and very personal and there’s nothing wrong with people, with Christians, with anybody, having personal ambition”.
Talking about his new book, he said: “I guess I reflect on the extent to which mine [his ambition] was pure and less so.”
Tim Farron was leader of the Lib Dems after Nick Clegg stepped down in 2015 and he resigned in 2017, saying he had been “torn between living as a faithful Christian and serving as a political leader” and he cited the hymn ‘When I Survey’ in his resignation speech.
Farron, who has been the member of parliament for Westmorland and Lonsdale since 2005, said that evaluating his own motives “puts in perspective the sense that there is something better to live for, which is essentially why I stepped down as leader, as there are things far more important. I think that hope keeps a lot of people, certainly keeps me, sane in these incredibly troubled times and is a reminder that all empires and all kings – they’re all temporary.
“I can be deeply, deeply troubled by the state of the country. Whatever side of the Brexit divide you find yourself on, always remember that the European Union, Brexit, Britain, they’re all temporary.
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