Webchat with Tim Farron, leader of the Liberal Democrat Party, on Friday 2 June at 1pm

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We’re pleased to announce a webchat with Tim Farron, leader of the Liberal Democrat Party, on Friday 2 June at 1pm.

Tim has been MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale since 2005 and was elected leader of the Lib Dems in July 2015. He has also held roles as party spokesman for youth, rural affairs and home affairs, as well as being national party president from 2011 to 2015.

The Lib Dem manifesto for the election on June 8 includes a second referendum on the Brexit deal, a 1p income tax increase to raise funds for the NHS and social care, opposition to the planned expansion of grammar schools, the extension of free childcare to all two-year-olds, and an additional month’s paid paternity leave for fathers.

Please do join the chat on Friday at 1pm, or if you can’t make it, leave a question here in advance. Please do share the webchat on social - the more, the merrier!

As always, please remember our webchat guidelines - one question each, follow-ups if there’s time and please keep it civil.

(As we approach the General Election we will endeavour to offer you a balanced diet of webchats with politicians from different parties; we hope to have more announcements soon.)

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MNHQ

Good old Greens. I hope Caroline keeps her seat.

Oh, I've just read that Tim Farron is projected to lose his seat to a Tory. This makes me sad.

I think it has been in the recent YouGov seat projection thing last week. Also Clegg and Robertson are also in danger.

It will be such a shame if they lose their seats. The return to two party politics is not good for democracy.

The thing is the head guy at YouGov said yesterday they don't really know and they they predicted Remain to win and Trump to lose. I'm going to keep positive. (Try to).

The thing is the head guy at YouGov said yesterday they don't really know and they they predicted Remain to win and Trump to lose. I'm going to keep positive

They also think that despite their model that Tories will win by 40-50 seats so go figure.

Of course yougov dont know!

The slavish belief in opinion polls is ridiculous. As are all the peddled stats about relating voting habits to age. It is only guesswork that the millenials don't vote .