✣ Lib Dem leader reverses stance on abortion

What happened? Lib Dem leader Tim Farron, who is a Christian, found himself in an awkward moral position for a second time, following his earlier grilling on whether gay sex is a sin.

In a 2007 interview in the Salvation Army’s War Cry magazine, he said he believed abortion was wrong: “Personally I wish I could argue it away,” he said.

Now, as party leader, he says: “I am pro-choice. I believe that abortion should be safe and legal and that the limit should be set by science.”