Donald Macintyre's sketch: Small talk, big ideas – might Tim Farron have the X-Factor?

Not having hitherto been exactly a household name, Tim Farron obviously needed to come over close-up and personal. But was there as a danger of over-sharing here? Good to know, obviously, that “time with our children is pretty much my top priority” or that that “the one good thing” about the photos of him in a teenage band are that they’re “so low resolution find that you can’t make out the eye-liner.” Or that up there on the Westmorland fells he i