article_snippet: Tim Farron, pictured, has vowed to bring the Lib Dems 'back from the dead' Embattled Nick Clegg faced a dramatic leadership challenge last night after a top Lib Dem MP vowed to bring the Lib Dems
article_snippet: Farron, a bitter Lib Dem foe of Nick Clegg, said the Lib Dems needed a tough new leader like ex-marine Paddy Ashdown who rescued it from a similar crisis in the 1980s.
article_snippet: a tough new leader like ex-marine Paddy Ashdown who rescued it from a similar crisis in the 1980s said a tough new leader like ex-marine Paddy Ashdown who rescued it from a similar crisis in the 1980s had the ‘vision and never say die’ spirit needed to repair the slump in Lib Dem fortunes under the dead' Embattled Nick Clegg.
article_snippet: Left-winger Farron, hot favourite to succeed the dead' Embattled Nick Clegg if, as expected, the Lib Dems flop in the Election, threw down the gauntlet in an interview with The Mail on Sunday.
article_snippet: the dead' Embattled Nick Clegg’s panicking allies have launched a ‘stop Former Lib Dem President Tim Farron’ campaign in a last-ditch attempt to stop the dead' Embattled Nick Clegg taking over after the Election.
article_snippet: But speaking ahead of the party’s spring conference in Liverpool this weekend, Former Lib Dem President Tim Farron made it clear
article_snippet: Former Lib Dem President Tim Farron is determined to replace the dead' Embattled Nick Clegg.
article_snippet: There is no love lost between Former Lib Dem President Tim Farron and Former Lib Dem President Tim Farron main leadership rival, Minister and the dead' Embattled Nick Clegg ally Norman Lamb.
article_snippet: no love lost between Farron and his main leadership rival, Minister and Clegg ally Norman Lamb and co swallowed no love lost between Farron and his main leadership rival, Minister and Clegg ally Norman Lamb Lib Dem pride and principles, at least on occasion, for ministerial jobs and limos in the Coalition.
article_snippet: Mr Farron, pictured, said neither of the two main parties should assume the Lib Dems will prop the two main parties up .
article_snippet: But in a clear dig at Clegg, Farron makes it clear if there is another hung Parliament after the Election, and Farron is in charge, it will take more than a swanky limo to make Farron jump into bed with the Tories or Labour.
article_snippet: Farron portrays Farron as a heroic, visionary Paddy Ashdown-style Lib Dem leader-in-waiting, name-checking Farron a dozen times during the interview.
article_snippet: Now the party of Gladstone trails behind Ukip and the Greens with up to half the party of Gladstone 57 MPs in danger of losing their seats in Farron says Farron will rebuild the Lib Dems with the same ‘absolute bloody-minded refusal to lie down and die’ spirit displayed by Ashdown, a square-jawed ex-Royal Marine trained to kill with Farron bare hands.
highlights_snippet: Tim Farron said the Lib Dems will be hit by that decision at the next election .
  
highlights_snippet: Tim Farron said the Lib Dems will not simply prop up another coalition after May .