Tim Farron just resigned as leader of the U.K.'s Liberal Democratic party, and his statement explaining why should enter the history books: “To be a political leader — especially of a progressive, liberal party in 2017 — and to live as a committed Christian, to hold faithfully to the Bible's teaching, has felt impossible for me,” Farron said. And so he's off. The obvious rejoinder to Farron's statement is that he had to resign because he had a disastrous electoral showing. And to a degree, that is true. The Lib Dems have seemingly lost their political base in the last two elections. David Cameron's modernizing of the Tories took one bite out of it ...
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