Tim Farron has unwittingly come up with the catchphrase for the General Election after a bizarre clip of the Liberal Democrat leader surfaced in which he asked someone to "smell my spaniel".

In 2015, the phrase everyone remembered from the election was "hell yes I'm tough enough", spoken fiercely by Ed Miliband as he took part in the televised interviews during the campaign.

This time around, it could be "smell my spaniel".

Mr Farron does have a spaniel, a Springer named Jasper, who makes frequent appearances on his social media page.