we will be the opposition said tim farren, leader of the liberal democrats.u look at page seven, it talks about his hopes, particularly in scotland, for their success in the forthcoming general election. i cannot find anything he says we will be the opposition though, can you?m anything he says we will be the opposition though, can you? it is an eye—catching headline. it is quite a bold claim, but i think the closest he comes, when he read the story inside is i want to be the leader of the opposition verstappen is slightly different. that is an understandable ambition for any party of opposition, even one with only nine mps, but i guess it is looking at the state of the labour party, looking at the opinion polls and saying, we could get increased representation. the idea they would be timid opposition is pretty fanciful. labour is going to be done and the liberal democrats will go up, but that does not equal the liberal democrats being the party of opposition. my advice to tim farren would be to keep your head down. i mean it to be patronising. every time his

we have tim farren ruling out a coalition and leanne wood as well. they want to deal with either of the two big parties. they enjoyed five years in government, but the paid quite an electoral price for that last time. do you detect from his position that there is still a recognition that thatis there is still a recognition that that is some residual toxicity to the fact they were prepared to go into coalition? i think so. we saw it at the last general election, the lib dems being annihilated, from 57 seats down to eight. they got one backin seats down to eight. they got one back in richmond park, so they have nine. he suffered a great deal. now they see their moment, because they are, in terms of the main parties, a party that people associate with remaining in the european union. so if you voted remain, and labour's m essa 9 es if you voted remain, and labour's messages muddled, perhaps your vote will go to the lib dems. they're probably thinking they don't need to do gales with other parties, because they are a party with a clear message and they m

i think tim farren will pick up myjeremy corbyn loses.u—turn. i do know and have been discussing with ancient people of my age that people are very, ancient people of my age that people are very, very worried that she is going to tax part—timers, that is often older people, she is going to re move often older people, she is going to remove the triple bock. everybody says, well, millennial is have no money and pensioners have all the money, that is slightly weird because of house values and all the re st of because of house values and all the rest of it. but you've got a lot of millennial is who actually will need to save money so they can going to ca re to save money so they can going to care homes. to actually knock the people who are your main voting constituency which is what they may be, philip hammond wanted to put more tax on self—employed people, and that was very unpopular, and they had to withdraw from it because it had been a david cameron pledge. but what you are saying, basically, is that we don't know what theresa may is. i'v

tim farren has stated again no solutions suggestion of cooperation. —— tim farron. the tories are taking in the version of the country. he is clear that he doesn't want to go into coalition or enter into any pa ct to into coalition or enter into any pact to prop up the labour party. he wa nts pact to prop up the labour party. he wants people to vote the lib dems on their own terms. let's not pretend their own terms. let's not pretend the prime minister has chosen selection for any other reason than a cold and calculated desire to do what is right for the conservative party, not for the country. she expect some kind of coronation. what is blindingly obvious is thatjeremy corbyn and the labour party and obsessed with fighting amongst themselves. there is a vacancy for a leader of the opposition and icy given that this is a historic moment for britain whether we choose to go to the cliff edge of a hard brexit choose to let the people decide the terms of the deal, the liberal democrats say we will be strong opposition that britain definitely needs —— desperately needs.

we will hearfrom theresa may, who is out in the south—east of england, later this afternoon and tim farrener hoping to make money if the price of shares in the team fell. damian mcguinness centres this update in the last hour. police and the authorities in germany were cautious from the outset, saying they couldn't rule outset, saying they couldn't rule out any line of investigation, pursuing all suspects. but there was a lot of speculation in the international media where we had some politicians and media in britain and the us, saying directly that it was islamist terror. it now turns out not to be the case. prosecutors believe this man bought options on the dortmund shares, basically a way of betting that the share price will go down and if it does go down, you win money, so he was hoping this attack would lead to a drastic drop in the share price. that did, in fact, happen but it is a very cynical way of trying to earn money because what the intention of the attack appears to have been, allegedly, was to seriously injure members of the team if not kill them, because these explosives wer

tim farron in boxall. there is of course the prominent laxity, the labour mp, and farren is targeting places with heavily remainthe last referendum injune and says he believes the lib dems can take some of the seats of labour. let's go to our chief political correspondent. what did you make of what he had to say? you can see why the liberal democrats are doing this. they are very much the pro—eu, pro—european party. the problem is the strategy though, there are not that many seats are up against labour or labour mps, who voted to leave. the real heartland is in the south—west of england, an area which voted to leave the eu. that could cause them problems. they are very confident they will do better than last time around. that's not hard. the almost wiped out and went down to eight mps, they have a by—election win in richmond—upon—thames where they campaigned as the pro—eu party, but they say there are very many millions of people out there who, even though they might think we are leaving the eu, the think the uk should be in the single market. he also talked about a credible opposition. the argument, very simil